Rare-earth metal-organic frameworks,[Ln2 (pydc) 3 (H2O) 9] n3nH2O (Ln= Sm, Eu, Gd, Dy; pydc= pyridine-3, 5-dicarboxylate), were synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectra and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The solid-state photoluminescence measurements exhibited red light-emitting characteristic of europium (III) coordination polymer. The title compounds consist of one-dimensional dual chains, in which each ...