Polyarylate resin and electrophotographic photosensitive member

An electrophotographic photosensitive member comprising

• a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer, wherein
• the photosensitive layer contains a charge generating material, a hole transport material, and a binder resin,
• the binder resin includes a polyarylate resin,
• the polyarylate resin is any one of:
• a resin including a repeating unit (1-2) represented by a chemical formula (1-2) shown below, a repeating unit (2-1C) represented by a chemical formula (2-1C) shown below, a repeating unit (2-2A) represented by a chemical formula (2-2A) shown below, and a terminal group represented by a chemical formula (M1) shown below, a ratio of a number of the repeating units (2-1C) to a sum of a number of the repeating units (2-1C) and a number of the repeating units (2-2A) being 0.30;
• a resin including the repeating unit (1-2) represented by the chemical formula (1-2) shown below, the repeating unit (2-1C) represented by the chemical formula (2-1C) shown below, the repeating unit (2-2A) represented by the chemical formula (2-2A) shown below, and the terminal group represented by the chemical formula (M1) shown below, the ratio of the number of the repeating units (2-1C) to the sum of the number of the repeating units (2-1C) and the number of the repeating units (2-2A) being 0.50;
• or
• a resin including the repeating unit (1-2) represented by the chemical formula (1-2) shown below, the repeating unit (2-1C) represented by the chemical formula (2-1C) shown below, a repeating unit (2-2B) represented by a chemical formula (2-2B) shown below, and the terminal group represented by the chemical formula (M1) shown below, a ratio of the number of the repeating units (2-1C) to a sum of the number of the repeating units (2-1C) and a number of the repeating units (2-2B) being 0.50, and
• the hole transport material includes a compound represented by a general formula (10) shown below,
• in the general formula (10),
• R101, R103, R104, R105, R106, R107 and R108 each represent, independently of one another, a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 8, a phenyl group optionally having an alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 8, or an alkoxy group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 8,
• two adjacent chemical groups among R103, R104, R105, R106, and R107 may bond together to represent a cycloalkane having a carbon number of at least 5 and no greater than 7,
• R102 and R109 each represent, independently of one another, a phenyl group, an alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 8, or an alkoxy group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 8, and
• b1 and b2 each represent, independently of one another, an integer of at least 0 and no greater than 5.