A new method for the synthesis of the tit1e compounds 6 is described in this paper. Compounds 6 were obtained by an one-pot reaction process from β-dione and its analogues, 2-bromoethanol and carbon disulfide with potassium carbonate as the base. The possible mechanism is discussed. In this mechanism, a monoanion intermediate 3 is proposed, it reacts with 2-bromoethanol by a sequential nucleophilic and electrophilic reaction process to build the key intermediate 5. 6 is formed by the elimination of hydrosulfide from 5.
Carhons were prepared at different temperatures by pyrolytic treatment of phenolformaldehyde resin molded with ZnCl2 in advance. X-ray structure analyses have shown that these carbon are essentially amorphous with rather loose structure of molecular size order with an interlayer distance of 0.36—0.37 nm. Using electrochemical methods, we have studied the insertion of lithium within these materials. Resole resins, heated to 580 ℃, have a reversible capacity of about 400 mA·h/g, which is beyond the theoretical capacity of graphite（372 mA·h/g） and discover that carbons with a smaller crystallite size and large interlayer distance have the larger discharge capacity.
