Electrophotographic photoconductor, and image forming apparatus, process cartridge and image forming method using the same

摘要

An object of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus containing an electrophotographic photoconductor, a charging unit, an exposing unit, a developing unit, a transfer unit and a cleaning unit, wherein the electrophotographic photoconductor contains a support and at least a photosensitive layer disposed on the support, wherein the photosensitive layer contains a charge generating material and a compound expressed by the following Structural Formula (1), and wherein, in the Structural Formula (1), "R¹" and "R²" may be identical to each other or different, and represent any one of hydrogen atom, alkyl group which may be substituted, cycloalkyl group which may be substituted and aralkyl group which may be substituted. "R³", "R⁴", "R⁵", "R⁶", "R⁷", "R⁸", "R⁹", "R¹⁰", "R¹¹", "R¹²", "R¹³" and "R¹⁴" may be identical to each other or different, and represent any one of hydrogen atom, halogen atom, cyano group, nitro group, amino group, hydroxyl group, alkyl group which may be substituted, cycloalkyl group which may be substituted and aralkyl group which may be substituted. "n" is a number of replication and represents an integer of 0 to 100.