“…Aromatic polycarboxylate acids are powerful ligands for the construction of porous frameworks with applications in guest molecule exchange [14]. Many investigations have paid attention to the coordination polymers containing asymmetric rigid benzene polycarboxylate acids, such as 1,2,3-benzenetricarboxylic acid (H 3 btc) [15][16][17], 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid [18,19], 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid [20][21], and 1,2,4,5-benzenetetracarboxylic acid [22][23][24]. In this work we report the reaction of benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylic acid (H 3 btc) with silver(I) nitrate and crystal structure, thermal behaviors and solution studies of the resulting coordination polymer.…”