Bottom-up synthesis of oxygen-containing carbon materials using a Lewis acid catalyst

Oxygen-containing carbon materials have been studied extensively because of their excellent dispersibility, absorptivity, separability, and supportability of catalysts. However, structural control by existing top-down methods is almost impossible. Our group has demonstrated that phloroglucinol (PG, 1,3,5-trihydroxybenzene) can be a promising raw material to synthesize structurally controlled oxygen-containing carbon materials. In this study, in...