The invention provides a phosphorescence main body compound containing indole groups. The compound has better thermal stability, high luminous efficiency and high luminous purity, can be used for manufacturing organic electroluminescent devices, and is applied to the fields of organic solar batteries, organic thin film transistors or organic photoreceptors. The invention also provides an organic electroluminescent device, which comprises an anode, a cathode and an organic layer, wherein the organic layer comprises one layer or more than one layer in a luminous layer, a hole injection layer, a hole transmission layer, a hole blocking layer, an electron injection layer and an electron transmission layer; at least one layer in the organic layer comprises the compound shown as the structural formula I. The structural formula I is shown as the accompanying drawing.