The Schiff base pyridine-2-carboxaldehyde-4-aminoantipyrine （CI7H16N4O 1） and its perchlorate （C17H17N4O·ClO4 2） have been prepared and characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectra and single-crystal X-ray crystallography analysis. Both 1 and 2 crystallize in the monoclinic system, space group P21/c. For 1, a = 8.6820（12）, b = 24.934（3）, c = 7.0064（10） A,, β= 97.942（3）°, V = 1502.2（4） A^3, Z = 4, Dc = 1.293 g/cm^3, F（000） = 616,μ = 0.084 mm^-1, the final R = 0.0592 and wR = 0.1244. For 2, a = 5.9302（2）, b = 20.347（7）, c = 14.663（6） A, β= 90.200（9）°, V= 1769.201） A^3, Z = 4, Dc = 1.475 g/cm^3, F（000） = 816, μ = 0.254 mm^-1, the final R = 0.0533 and wR = 0.0819. As expected, both molecular structures of 1 and 2 adopt a trans configuration about the central C=N double bond. 2 is an ionic compound with the protonation at N（1） of pyridine-2-carboxaldehyde-4- aminoantipyrine.
A novel tetranuclear zinc（H） coordination polymer [Zn4（o-bda）a（p-pbim）4]n 1 （p-pbim = 4-pyridylbenzimidazole, o-bda2 = o-phenylenediacetic acid dianion） has been synthesized by a hydrothermal method and characterized by elemental analysis, IR and X-ray singlecrystal diffraction. The title complex crystallizes in monoclinic, space group of P21/n with α = 14.231（1）, b = 16.257（1）, c = 16.794（1） ]k, β = 100.26（1）°, V = 3823.1（2）A3, Z = 8, Dc = 1.573 g/cm^3,β = 1.321 mm^-1, F（000） = 1856, R = 0.0420 and wR = 0.111. The Zn（1） atom assumes a distorted trigonal bipyramidal geometry, involving three carboxyl O atoms from two different o-bda ligands and two N atoms from two p-pbim ligands. The Zn（2） atom is coordinated by two oxygens from two distinct bda2- anions and two nitrogen atoms from two p-pbim ligands to form a distorted tetrahedral geometry. The Zn（Ⅱ） atoms are alternately interlinked by o-bda ligands in bis-monodentate or chelating-bidentate and monodentate modes into one-dimensional undulate chains along axis c with the adjacent Zn…Zn distances of 8.32 and 8.47 A. Such neighboring chains are further extended into a 1D bi-chain structure with two different subrings A and B, which are 32- and 14-membered rings through interchain p-pbim ligands. There exists a 2D supramolecular network linked by intermolecular hydrogen-bonding interactions between the uncoordinated carboxylate 0（4） atom or coordinated carboxylate 0（7） atom and the uncoordinated imidazolyl N（2） and N（5） atoms with the O...N distances to be 2.695 and 2.807A.
