“…Ma et al, 2003d), hexaaquacobalt(II) 3-carboxy-4hydroxybenzenesulfonate dihydrate (refcode SAYVEU;Abdelhak et al, 2005), hexaaquacobalt(II) 3-carboxy-4-hydroxybenzenesulfonate tetrahydrate (refcode KAGMUB;Ma et al, 2003b), hexaaquanickel(II) 3-carboxy-4-hydroxybenz-enesulfonate tetrahydrate (refcode KAGNAI;Ma et al, 2003a), hexaaquacopper(II) 3-carboxy-4-hydroxybenzenesulfonate dihydrate (refcode KAGNEM;Ma et al, 2003e), hexaaquazinc(II) 3-carboxy-4-hydroxybenzenesulfonate tetrahydrate (refcode KAGNIQ;Ma et al, 2003c), hexaaquazinc(II) 3-carboxy-4-hydroxybenzenesulfonate dihydrate (refcode FARFOV; Lamsho ¨ft et al, 2011), and bis(3-carboxy-4-hydroxybenzenesulfonato)diaquazinc(II) hydrate (refcode VOJYEB;Song et al, 2019). Of these structures, only FETHES and VOJYEB feature direct bonding between the sulfonate O atoms and the metal ions, while all of the others are similar to the structures reported herein.A search of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD, Version 5.42, update of November 2020;Groom et al, 2016) for the COOH-protonated 3-carboxybenzenesulfonate ion yielded 15 hits.…”