Luminescent material, and organic electroluminescent element

An emission material represented by any of the following general formulas (2) to (18), and (20) to (21):

• wherein each A1 independently represents CR1, C or N, provided that the number of N present in one 6-membered ring containing A1 in the general formulas (2) to (18), and (20) to (21) is 2 or less;
• and
• wherein each R1 independently represents hydrogen, a cyano group, deuterium, a substituted or unsubstituted diarylamino group having 12 to 44 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted arylheteroarylamino group having 12 to 44 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted diheteroarylamino group having 12 to 44 carbon atoms, an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group having 3 to 30 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted linked aromatic group formed by linking 2 to 5 such aromatic hydrocarbon groups and such aromatic heterocyclic groups.