Abstract: | catena‐Poly[[aquabis(nitrato‐κ2O,O′)cadmium(II)]‐μ‐1,2,3,6,7,8‐hexahydrocinnolino[5,4,3‐cde]cinnoline‐κN1:κN6], [Cd(NO3)2(C12H12N4)(H2O)]n, (I), and catena‐poly[[[bis(nitrato‐κ2O,O′)cadmium(II)]‐μ‐2,2,7,7‐tetramethyl‐1,2,3,6,7,8‐hexahydrocinnolino[5,4,3‐cde]cinnoline‐κN1:κN6] chloroform solvate], {[Cd(NO3)2(C12H12N4)]·CHCl3}n, (II), are the first structurally examined cadmium–pyridazine coordination compounds. They possess one‐dimensional polymeric structures supported by the bidentate bridging function of the cinnolino[5,4,3‐cde]cinnoline ligands, which lie about inversion centres. The Cd atoms are seven‐coordinated in (I) and six‐coordinated in (II), involving two bidentate nitrate groups [Cd—O = 2.229 (2)–2.657 (2) Å], two N atoms of the cinnoline ligands [Cd—N = 2.252 (2)–2.425 (2) Å], and, additionally, a water O atom in (I) [Cd—O = 2.284 (2) Å]. In (I), the coordinated organic and aqua ligands form an intramolecular O—H⋯N hydrogen bond [O⋯N = 2.730 (3) Å]. |