least two ketone groups within the ring structure which ring structure also includes one or more alkoxide metal salt functionalities the cyclic quinone ring may optionally include one or more halogen atoms for example one may utilize the following compound wherein x may be a halogen e g cl or br and m is reference to a metal cation which may include e g na li or k as can be seen from the above the cyclic quinone ring compound as illustrated contains two alkoxide salt functionalities u2014 c u2014 o u2212 m on the indicated quinone ring structure in addition while a 6 membered ring is specifically illustrated above it should be understood that the present disclosure applies to other types of quinone ring compounds such as an 8 membered quinone ring in addition it is contemplated herein that one may also utilize fused ring quinones e g quinones of the formula moreover it should be noted that the number of fused quinone rings while illustrated above at 3 may include fused ring quinone ring structures with ring numbers of 2 to 6 it may therefore now be noted that in a particular preferred embodiment the cyclic quinone compound suitable for use as the graphite oxide like precursor herein may have the following particular structure which may also be recognized as the chloroanilate disodium salt of hydroquinione with an empirical formula c 6 cl 2.