he reaction of the rigid spacer 4,4'-bipyrazole (H(2)BPZ) with late transition metals, either following conventional routes or under solvothermal conditions, afforded the coordination polymers [M(BPZ)].Solv (M = Zn, 1; Co, 2; Cd, 3; Hg, 4; Cu, 5; Ni, 6; Pd, 7; Solv = DMF, 3; MeCN, 5 and 6; H2O, 7), [Cu(H(2)BPZ)(2)(NO3)(2)] (8), and [Cd(H(2)BPZ)(CH3COO)(2)] (9). State-of-the-art laboratory powder diffraction methods allowed to disclose the isomorphous character of 1 and 2, as well as of 5 and 6, which feature 3D porous networks containing 1D channels of square and rhombic shape, respectively. 3, crystallizing in the relatively rare P6(1)22 space group, consists of homochiral helices of octahedral Cd-II ions, packing in bundles mutually linke...