Electrochemiluminescence (e.c.1.) of mixed phenanthrene(Ph)-d10-oxidant and Ph-h10-oxidant systems have been studied. Emission from excited singlet state of Ph-d10or Ph-h10is observed. On the basis of energetics of the electron transfer reaction, triplet-triplet annihilation is postulated to give the excited singlet state of Ph. Comparison of these results with photoluminescence of Ph-d10, shows efficient triplet–triplet annihilation occurs in e.c.1.