A divalent cadmium coordination polymer featuring a complex tetranodal 3-D topology and hexadecameric water clusters

Abstract The luminescent coordination polymer {[Cd 2 (dms) 2 (bpmp) 1.5 ]•8H 2 O} n (1, dms = 2,2-dimethylsuccinate, bpmp = bis(4-pyridylmethyl)piperazine) exhibits [Cd 2 (dms) 2 (bpmp)] n layers partially pillared by other crystallographically distinct bpmp ligands into a complex 3-D 3,4,5-connected tetranodal network. Hydrogen-bonded hexadecameric water molecule clusters lie in incipient channels.