The success of procuring a new organometallic structure is vastly dependent on the constituents of the materials. Altering the organonitrogen ligand in a structure has a significant impact on the type of coordination and networking a three dimensional structure will take. The ligand 2,2-bipyrimidine was synthesized using a revised procedure which led to a greater yield than in previous work cited (1). The ligand was then used in several hydrothermal syntheses reactions for which a new and very interesting nickel structure with large pores was obtained. The structure and some information obtained about the structure were reported.

1 Vlad, G., & Horvath, I. T. (2002). Improved syntheis of 2,2'-bipyrimidine. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 67(18), 6550-6552.