“…The 4,4 0 -bipyridine heterocycle has been used as a spacer ligand to connect an enormous range of metal salts to afford coordination polymers that adopt a variety of motifs (Allen, 2002). Among such coordination polymers are the manganese dicarboxylates, those structurally verified being the diaquaphthalate (Ma et al, 2003), the maleate monohydrate, the aquafumarate (Shi et al, 2000) and the aquasuccinate (Ma et al, 2004) complexes. The last two structures contain clathrated 4,4 0 -bipyridine.…”