“…The structures of metal diphenylphosphinate compounds have been well studied for copper (Bino & Sassman, 1987), nickel (Annan et al, 1991), and manganese (Ruettinger et al, 1999;Du et al, 1991). Orlandini and coworkers have expanded the area to include studies on diphosphinates with transition metals (Costantino, Ienco et al, 2008;Bataille et al, 2008;Midollini & Orlandini, 2006;Ciattini et al, 2005;Midollini et al, 2004;Cecconi et al, 2004;Berti et al, 2002) and p-block metals (Cecconi et al, 2003;Beckman et al, 2004Beckman et al, , 2005. As part of our investigations in this area, we isolated one-and two-dimensional cadmium(II) coordination polymers incorporating diphenylphosphinate ligands.…”