“…Recently, an increasing attention has been focused on the synthesis and designing of aminodiphosphonic acids and new metal phosphonate inorganic-organic hybrid materials with one-, two-or three-dimensional structures due to their potential applications in porous materials, ion exchange reagents, catalysis, sensors, nonlinear optics materials, antitumour drugs, photovoltaic devices and biotechnologies (Kotek et al, 2000;Ying et al, 2007;Mao et al, 2002;Vivani et al, 2004). The title compounds, (I), Fig.…”