I.We construct open book structures on all moment-angle manifolds and describe the topology of their leaves and bindings under certain restrictions. II. We also show, using a recent deep result about contact forms due to Borman, Eliashberg and Murphy [6], that every odd-dimensional moment-angle manifold admits a contact structure. This contrasts with the fact that, except for a few, well-determined cases, even-dimensional ones do not admit symplectic structures. We obtain the same results for large families of more general intersections of quadrics.

We construct new examples of contact manifolds in arbitrarily large dimensions. These manifolds which we call moment-angle manifolds of mixed type, are closely related to the classical moment-angle manifolds.

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