“…We should note here that blocks with either 2,2′-bipyridyl (bpy) or 1,10-phenantroline ligands are well known in the chemistry of lanthanide(III) complexes (69 unique hits in CSDB ver. 5.42 (November 2020) [ 42 ]) with monocarboxylate ligands, such as acetate, benzoate and their derivatives [ 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 ], but no examples for Y 3+ have been reported so far. Additionally, 1 , as well as all other isostructural compounds obtained in this work, represents the first example of extended coordination polymer structures based on such a {M 2 L 2 (NO 3 ) 2 (OOCR) 4 } building unit (where M = any metal cation, L = any chelate N-donor ligand).…”