The compound （H3IDC）（Prz）0.5（H2O） （H3IDC = imidazole-4,5-dicarboxylate, Prz = piperazine） has been prepared from a hydrothermal approach and was characterized by IR analysis and X-ray diffraction. Its crystal structure consists of discrete 4,5-imidazole-dicarboxylate, H2O and piperazine molecules. The whole structural motif was assembled by three different non-covalent interactions of O-H…O, N-H…O and π-π stacking, which play an important role in packing the molecules. Interestingly, the connections between imidazole-4,5-dicarboxylate molecule and water molecule result in a helical polymeric chain. Crystal data for compound 1： monoclinic system, space group P21/c, a = 6.4600（13）, b = 19.910（4）, c = 6.9123（14） A^°, β = 94.26（3）°, V= 886.6（3） A^°^3, Z= 4, C7H10O5N3, Mr = 216.18.
π-π Stacking in the 2,4,6-tris（4-pyridyl）-1,3,5-triazine aromatic nitrogen-containing ligand and its metal-ligand complex Zn（TPT）2（H2O）4（OH）2 1 has been investigated by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses. The stacking mode of the ligand changes from the offset conformation to a perfect face-to-face alignment with the coordination to the zinc centers. The structure features are correlated with their solid-state luminescence properties. With excitation at 360 nm, free TPT ligand gives a strong fluorescent emission at 455 nm and the ligand-centered emission of the metal-ligand complex occurs at the same wavelength with lower emission intensity. The distance between the aromatic rings responds to the difference of luminescence characters.
A new polymeric iodoplumbate complex [Zn（DMF）6][Pb2I6] 1 has been prepared and characterized by elemental analysis and single-crystal X-ray analysis. Its structure contains infinite iodoplumbate chains constructed by the [PbI5] subunit. EHT crystal orbital calculation and the experimental results show that this material is an unconventional semiconductor and the electrical character is associated with its structural feature.
