Two cadmium(II) and two zinc(II) coordination complexes with diverse structural motifs, [Cd 2 (HL)I 3 H 2 O]·H 2 O (1), [Cd 2 (H 2 L) 2 (H 2 O) 4 ]·2SO 4 ·14H 2 O (2), [Zn 3 (LЈ) 2 (H 2 O) 6 ]·4H 2 O·2(NO 3 ) (3), and [Zn 3 L' 2 (H 2 O) 2 Cl 2 ]·H 2 O (4) [H 2 L = 1,1-bis(5-(pyrid-2-yl)-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)methane; H 2 LЈ = 1,1-bis(5-(pyrid-2-yl)-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)methanone] were synthesized through a hydrothermal method. These coordination complexes were characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), FT-IR spectroscopy, and photo-luminescent experiments. Single crystal structural analysis revealed that 1-4 belong to polynuclear coordination com-