Due to their striking opticalp roperties, luminescent coordination polymers as sensors for the detection of hazardous species have drawn interest of researchers in consideration of the control of environmental pollution. In this work, the organic ligand 2-(4-((E)-2-(pyridine-2-yl)vinyl)styryl)pyridine (2-bpeb),w hich possesses al arge p-conjugated system, was employedt or eact with d 10 metal ions to obtain novel luminescentc oordination polymers. Three complexes [Cd(2-bpeb) 0.5 (CNA)(H 2 O)] (CP1), [Cd(2-bpeb) 0.5 (NDC)] (CP2) and [Zn(2-bpeb)(BDC)] (CP3)w ere synthesized successfully by introducing carboxylic acids of 4-carboxycinnamic acid (H 2 CNA), 2,6-naphthalene dicarboxylica cid (H 2 NDC) and 1,4benzenedicarboxylica cid (H 2 BDC) as auxiliary ligands. Because of the existence of the large p-conjugated system and d 10 metal ions, all of these coordinationp olymers exhibit striking fluorescencep roperties.I mpressively,a ll of them can functiona ss ensors for the detection of highly oxidizing anionsM nO 4 À and Cr 2 O 7 2À ,w ith an increased sensitivity for MnO 4 À .Supporting information and the ORCID identification number(s) for the author(s) of this article can be found under: https://doi.