Doping is an effective solution to improve the capacity of carbon based anode material such as introducing nitrogen, boron, sulfur, phosphorus heteroatom into the graphite lattice. However, most of the previous doping methods are confined in the crystal lattice, edge doping is rarely studied. Here, using first-principle quantum chemical calculations, we studied lithium adsorption ability of various functional groups(NH2, NO2, SO3H, Cl, Br, I, OH, P) which were doped at the edge of graphene sheet. Among all the groups, nitro-group shows the best lithium adsorption property. On the basis of theoretical predictions, we successfully synthesized nitro group edge modified porous carbon through the pyrolysis of Cubased metal organic frameworks (MOFs) at 600℃ under nitrogen atmosphere and post acid treatment. As an anode material for lithium ion batteries, it retains a capacity of 588 mA/g after 1500 cycles at a high current density of 1 A/g. The lithium anodic performance of nitro-group doped carbon is superior to other edge doped carbon based materials reported in literatures such as halogen, sulfur and phosphorus. The excellent cycling performance at high current densities is ascribed to the improved lithium adsorption ability of the nitro-group doped at the edge of carbon. Figure 3. Images of N-C octahedral particles by electron microscopy. (a) FESEM and (b) TEM images of the N-C material. (c) HRTEM image of the MOF-derived mesoporous N-C polyhedrons. (d) Selected-area electron diffraction pattern of the N-C octahedron. (e-h) Scanning TEM image of the N-C octahedron and energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry elemental maps of C and N, O, repectively.