A series of macroporous adsorption resins (MARs) with novel structures is synthesized via Friedel–Crafts catalyzed reaction. The adsorption kinetics of the synthetic resins with respect to the purification effect is systematically investigated by means of the response surface methodology (RSM). The kinetic data cannot be fitted to the classical model because it does not take multicompartments and desorption rates into consideration. A new multicompartment louver-tide theory is thus developed considering that adsorption is an indefinite dynamic equilibrium process, which can be divided into innumerable ingredients with different desorption rates. This theory produces much better fits to the experimental data and provides a quantitative explanation with multicompartments and adsorption/desorption rates.