“…16,17 Carboxylate ligands are among the common ligands in preparation of MOFs, while recently, N-donor ligands have also attracted increasing attention in preparation of interesting supramolecular complexes. 17 As a d 10 metal ion, Zn 2+ is particularly suited for the construction of coordination networks. 18,19 Carboxylate ligands can coordinate to metals in many ways: as monodentate, chelate, bidentate bridging in a syn-syn, syn-anti or anti-anti configuration, monoatomic alone or additional bridging and chelating bridging 20,21 (Figure 1), which is one of the reasons for the existence of a huge number of metal acetates.…”