The Schiff base pyridine-2-carboxaldehyde-4-aminoantipyrine （CI7H16N4O 1） and its perchlorate （C17H17N4O·ClO4 2） have been prepared and characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectra and single-crystal X-ray crystallography analysis. Both 1 and 2 crystallize in the monoclinic system, space group P21/c. For 1, a = 8.6820（12）, b = 24.934（3）, c = 7.0064（10） A,, β= 97.942（3）°, V = 1502.2（4） A^3, Z = 4, Dc = 1.293 g/cm^3, F（000） = 616,μ = 0.084 mm^-1, the final R = 0.0592 and wR = 0.1244. For 2, a = 5.9302（2）, b = 20.347（7）, c = 14.663（6） A, β= 90.200（9）°, V= 1769.201） A^3, Z = 4, Dc = 1.475 g/cm^3, F（000） = 816, μ = 0.254 mm^-1, the final R = 0.0533 and wR = 0.0819. As expected, both molecular structures of 1 and 2 adopt a trans configuration about the central C=N double bond. 2 is an ionic compound with the protonation at N（1） of pyridine-2-carboxaldehyde-4- aminoantipyrine.
A novel tetranuclear zinc（H） coordination polymer [Zn4（o-bda）a（p-pbim）4]n 1 （p-pbim = 4-pyridylbenzimidazole, o-bda2 = o-phenylenediacetic acid dianion） has been synthesized by a hydrothermal method and characterized by elemental analysis, IR and X-ray singlecrystal diffraction. The title complex crystallizes in monoclinic, space group of P21/n with α = 14.231（1）, b = 16.257（1）, c = 16.794（1） ]k, β = 100.26（1）°, V = 3823.1（2）A3, Z = 8, Dc = 1.573 g/cm^3,β = 1.321 mm^-1, F（000） = 1856, R = 0.0420 and wR = 0.111. The Zn（1） atom assumes a distorted trigonal bipyramidal geometry, involving three carboxyl O atoms from two different o-bda ligands and two N atoms from two p-pbim ligands. The Zn（2） atom is coordinated by two oxygens from two distinct bda2- anions and two nitrogen atoms from two p-pbim ligands to form a distorted tetrahedral geometry. The Zn（Ⅱ） atoms are alternately interlinked by o-bda ligands in bis-monodentate or chelating-bidentate and monodentate modes into one-dimensional undulate chains along axis c with the adjacent Zn…Zn distances of 8.32 and 8.47 A. Such neighboring chains are further extended into a 1D bi-chain structure with two different subrings A and B, which are 32- and 14-membered rings through interchain p-pbim ligands. There exists a 2D supramolecular network linked by intermolecular hydrogen-bonding interactions between the uncoordinated carboxylate 0（4） atom or coordinated carboxylate 0（7） atom and the uncoordinated imidazolyl N（2） and N（5） atoms with the O...N distances to be 2.695 and 2.807A.
Two new 2D coordination polymers of [M（Enox）2]·C2H5OH （M=Zn, 1 and Co, 2; HEnox=1,4-dihydro- 1-ethyl-6-fluoro-4-oxo-7-piperazine-1,8-naphtyridine-3-carboxylic acid） were synthesized under hydrothermal conditions. The single crystal X-ray diffraction analyses showed that 1 and 2 are isostructural. The Zn（Ⅱ） in 1 and Co（Ⅱ） ions in 2 are six-coordinated in an octahedral environment with an equatorial plane composed of four oxygen atoms： two of them from the 4-oxo and the other two from 3-carboxylate of two coordinated Enox ligands, forming a stable six-membered chelating ring with the apical positions occupied by two N atoms of the piperazinyl rings. Thus, the molecules were self-assembled into a 2D neutral square grid with cavity dimensions of 1.3399 nm× 1.3399 nm for 1 and 1.3389 nm× 1.3389 nm for 2, respectively. Compound 1 emits strong blue fluorescence on irradiation by UV light in the solid state at room temperature.
