“…4,9 Only a few structural studies have been reported on metal compounds of aminodiphosphonic acids, RN(CH 2 PO 3 H 2 ) 2 . [10][11][12] The crystal structure of a copper compound with ethylaminebis(methylphosphonate) was reported by Makaranets et al 10 Recently a series of divalent metal compounds with N-methyliminodi(methylenephosphonate) (H 4 L 0 ) were isolated in our laboratory. 11 With the removal of one proton from the ligand, we isolated two layered compounds with the formula of M(H 3 L 0 ) 2 Á2H 2 O (M ¼ Cd, Mn); replacement of two protons from a ligand by a divalent metal ion resulted in Zn(H 2 L 0 )(H 2 O) with a double chain structure and a layered lead diphosphonate, Pb(H 2 L 0 ).…”