LUMINESCENCE DEVICE, DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METAL COORDINATION COMPOUND

A luminescence device is principally constituted by a pair of electrodes and an organic compound layer disposed therebetween. The layer contains a metal coordination compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein M denotes Ir, Rh or Pd; n is 2 or 3; and X1 to X8 independently denote hydrogen atom or a substituent selected from the group consisting of halogen atom; nitro group; trifluoromethyl group trialkylsilyl group having three linear or branched alkyl groups each independently having 1 - 8 carbon atoms; and a linear or branched alkyl group having 2 - 20 carbon atoms capable of including one or at least two non-neighboring methylene groups which can be replaced with -O-, -S-, -CO-, -CO-O-, -O-CO-, -CH=CH- or -C=C- and capable of including hydrogen atom which can be replaced with fluorine atom; with the proviso that at least one of X1 to X8 is a substituent other than hydrogen atom, and X2 and X3 cannot be fluorine atom at the same time.