4 (3) have been synthesized and characterized structurally by X-ray diffraction, where H 3 TDA ¼ 1,2,3-triazole-4,5-dicarboxylic acid and phen ¼ 1, 10-phenanthroline. Their solid-state structures have been characterized by elemental analysis and IR spectroscopy. In 1, a 3-D (4, 8)-connected metal-organic framework has been constructed using dinuclear potassium clusters as eight-connected nodes and the ligands as four-connected nodes; it represents the fluorite topology network. Compound 2 exhibits 1-D chains along c-axis, which are connected by strong hydrogen-bond interactions in 2-D layers; the layers are further stacked via hydrogen bonds in the b-direction. In 3, two neighboring Mn(II) ions are bridged by two 1,2,3-triazole-4,5-dicarboxylic groups, forming a binuclear structure, with Mn(II) Á Á Á Mn(II) distance of 4.356 Å , which is further linked to generate a 2-D layer structure via interdimer hydrogen bonds. The fluorescence for these compounds was investigated.