“…Following our recent research on the synthesis and structural characterization of novel hybrid compounds containing -Keggin-type polyoxometalates and lanthanide coordination compounds (Soares-Santos, Nogueira, Fe  lix et al, 2003;Soares-Santos, Nogueria, Paz et al, 2003;Cavaleiro et al, 1999;Gamelas et al, 1999), we came across the title compound, (I). Interestingly, as revealed by a search in the Cambridge Structural Database (Allen, 2002) (You, Wang, Zhang et al, 2000).…”