Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Materials

The review devoted by nitrogen-doped carbon materials and strategies for their synthesis, which result in the formation of substances enriched with different forms of nitrogen — pyridine, pyrrole, quaternary (graphene-like), nitrile, amine and oxidized nitrogen. It has been shown that the predominant presence of a certain form of nitrogen in the composition of N-carbon material contributes to the manifestation of various properties that are important from a practical point of view — electrophysical, adsorption, etc. The importance of targeted regulation of the nitrogen state in N-carbon materials is also noted. Based on the analysis of approaches to N-functionalization of carbon materials considered in the literature, a fundamental scheme for obtaining materials with a predominant presence of a target form of nitrogen is proposed.