Structural studies of the homoleptic main group metal alkyls are of fundamental interest to rationalize their physical behavior and reactivity, and they provide novel supramolecular structures with remarkable topologies and often unusual metal-ligand interactions. For instance, the structure of heavier group 13 trimethyls is topologically equivalent to the well-known zeolite type structures, 1 and the structure characterization of Mg t Bu 2 (i.e., the simplest dialkylmagnesium compound to be structurally authenticated) revealed that intra-and intermolecular CH 3 ‚‚‚Mg agostic interactions play a substantial role in the molecular assembly. 2 As noted by Seyferth in the seminal paper on the history of zinc alkyls chemistry, in recent years, there has been a renaissance in dialkylzinc chemistry due to the utility of this family of compounds in important synthetic processes. 3 Up to now, however, the structurally authenticated homoleptic dialkylzincs consist of sterically strongly encumbered methylsilyl ligands, 4 though some of lower zinc alkyls were investigated by a host of techniques 5 including molecular weight determination, NMR and IR spectroscopy, gas electron diffraction, and photoelectron spectroscopy. 6 Other structurally known examples are restricted to a very recently reported divinylzinc compound 7 and some diarylzinc compounds, including the unique structure of diphenylzinc, in which the monomeric ZnPh 2 units are associated into unsymmetrical dimers that are linked by further weaker interactions into tetrameric units. 8 Moreover, systematic investigations on the structure and relative stability of the ZnR 2 (L) n adduct as a function of the character of both the R substituent and L ligand are also relatively sparse. For instance, to our knowledge, of the Lewis acid-base adducts involving Zn t Bu 2 , only the threecoordinate ZnR 2 (L) complexes with the iminato ligand have been structurally authenticated. 9,10 On the other hand, during the past decade, the controlled selfassembly of metal-ligand complexes has attracted great attention owing to their wide potential applications as functional materials, and many supramolecular compounds with intriguing structures have been synthesized and characterized, such as the 1D chains, 2D layers, and 3D open frameworks. 11 In regard to 2D metalorganic frameworks, where honeycomb, brick wall, grid, square, or rectangular networks are known, nanofabrics still await their realization (Chart 1). 12 We report here a system involving Zn t Bu 2 and bipyridine ligands that brings together the major features mentioned above: the molecular structure of homoleptic metal alkyl and self-assembly of a metal-ligand complex leading to unprecedented topology of the 2D framework based on coordination polymers sustained by organometallic nodes.The limited experimental structural data for tert-butylzinc derivatives stimulated our interest in Zn t Bu 2 (1) and its adducts with pyridine ligands. The homoleptic starting compound 1 was prepared in high yield according to the literature ...