The hydrothermal reaction between Cd(NO
3)
2, trimesic acid (H
3BTC), 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethane (BPE), and triethylamineunder mild conditions yielded, after 3 days, a novel three-dimensional metal-organic framework, [Cd
1.5(BTC)(BPE)(H
2O)
2]·(H
2O), which has been characterized structurally using single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction, elementalanalysis, infrared and Raman spectroscopies, thermogravimetry, and differential scanning calorimetry. The structureexhibits a 2-fold interpenetration of identical [Cd
1.5(BTC)(BPE)(H
2O)
2] single frameworks, described as an unusual(9
) net. Crystal data: Cd
1.5C
21H
21N
2O
9, monoclinic, space group
C2/
c, with
a = 10.8264(5) Å,
b = 17.4563(5) Å,
c = 24.2605(11) Å,
= 91.978(2)
,
V = 4582.2(3) Å
3, and
Z = 8.