“…[13][14][15] Inspired by the efforts of Xiong and coworkers, [16,17] we are dedicated to investigate pyridinetetrazole-carboxylate ligands and, to some extent, made some progress. [18][19][20][21] To extend our previous work, we have treated K3-pytza [K3-pytza = 5-(3-pyridyl) tetrazole-2-acetato potassium salt] with MnCl 2 ·4H 2 O and 4,4Ј-bipy or mixed ligands with 4,4Ј-bipy in order to investigate whether or not the auxiliary ligand will have an effect on the structure of our targeted molecule. By reaction of K3-pytza, MnCl 2 ·4H 2 O and 4,4Ј-bipy, two new coordination compounds, namely, 1D [Mn(3-pytza) 2 (H 2 O) 2 ]·2H 2 O (1) and 2D [Mn(3-pytza) 2 (4,4Ј-bipy)] (2) were obtained.…”