2 )]Á2CH 3 CN} n , the Cu 2 dinuclear units are connected by glutartate ligands, forming one-dimensional double chains. These chains, are in turn bridged by 1,4-bis(pyridin-4-yl)butane ligands to form a two-dimensional layer structure parallel to (112). The carboxylate groups of the glutarate ligand bridge two copper(II) ions, forming a paddle-wheel-type Cu 2 (CO 2 ) 4 dinuclear secondary building unit. A crystallographic inversion centre is located midway between two Cu II ions, with a CuÁ Á ÁCu distance of 2.639 (3) Å . The coordination geometry of the unique Cu II ion is slightly disorted square pyramidal, formed by four equatorial carboxylate O atoms and an axial pyridyl N atom.
Structure descriptionMetal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been constructed using metal ions and polytopic bridging ligands, and MOFs usually provide high surfaces and large pore volumes, and are thereby suitable for various advanced applications, such as selective gas sorption, heterogeneous catalysis, separation, sensors, drug delivery and biological imaging. Flexible dicarboxylates, as well as rigid aromatic dicarboxylates, have been used for the synthesis of MOFs, and flexible dicarboxylates, e.g. ,!-alkanedicarboxylates, have been shown to be particularly suitable as ligands in MOFs of various topologies. Recently, various MOFs containing these ,!-alkane(or alkene)dicarboxylate ligands have been reported (Hyun et al., 2013;Hwang et al., 2012Hwang et al., , 2013Lee et al., 2014;Kim et al., 2017)