Polycarboxylate ligands are a family of organic building blocks that play an important role in coordination chemistry, and have been justified as efficient and versatile candidates for the design and synthesis of a variety of metal coordination polymers (CPs). Aromatic dicarboxylates remain the most common linking agents in this class of materials due to their structural rigidity and ability to produce porous networks for adsorptive or catalytic applications. CPs constructed from aliphatic dicarboxylate ligands, versus those built from aromatic dicarboxylate ligands, have been less studied. For searching new coordination networks herein we have combined the Mn(II)/Zn(II)/Cd(II) metal centers with two types of ligands: dicarboxylic acids including fumaric acid (H2fum), 1,3-benzenedicarboxylic acid (H2ipa), and 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acids (H2bdc), and two oxime ligands, including pyridine-2-aldoxime (2-pyao) and pyridine-4-aldoxime (4-pyao). Nine Mn(II), Zn(II) and Cd(II) coordination polymers have been prepared, and their crystal structures have been determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. Compounds 1-4, 6 and 7 represent the 1D coordination polymers, while compounds 5, 8 and 9 represent the laminar 2D structures (Scheme).schemeThis “blend approach” demonstrates similarities and dissimilarities in CPs dictated by the distinctions in the metals’ and oxime ligands’ coordination capacities and preferences, and length and flexibility of the dicarboxylic linkers. In all studies dicarboxylate residues act as multidentate linkers, while the oxime ligands act as terminal ligands and restrict the further structure extensions. The samples 5-9 demonstrate an efficient water and N,N-dimethylformamide (dmf) uptake explained by the availability of the hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions in these solids.