“…In recent years, the design and construction of metal-organic frameworks (MOF)isone of the most active areas of materials research owingtotheir fascinatingstructuraltopologies [2][3] and thepotential functional applications in magnetism [4], electrical conductivity, ion exchange, biology and molecular recognition [5],sensors [6],phase separation [7],luminescent materials [8][9][10], molecular adsorption [11],n onlinear optics and catalysis [12].Ingeneral, arational strategy for the preparation of MOFs is the careful selection of asuitable organic ligands and functional metal ions under hydrothermalc onditions. Among the organic ligands, pyridinylcarboxylic acids as amember of the multidentate aromatic polycarboxylic acids are good candidates for constructingMOFsdue to theexistenceofbothNand Oatoms in the ligands, which can link 3d,4for either both types of metal ions [20],and gives versatile coordination modes for ptc 3-.Herein, we present the synthesis, characterization and crystal structure of a novell anthanide-organicf ramework {[Ce(ptc)(H 2 O) 2 ]·H 2 O} n .…”