Supporting Information Variable behaviour of a flexible bispyrazole ligand: A Co(II) polymer and unique Cu(II) penta-coordinated dimer Joan Soldevila-Sanmartína, Teresa Calvetb, Mercè Font-Bardiac, Duane Choquesillo- Lazarted, José G. Planase, Josefina Ponsa,* a Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08913 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. b Departament de Mineralogia, Petrologia i Geologia Aplicada, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain. c Unitat de Difracció de Raigs-X, Centres Científics i Tecnològics de la Universitat de Barcelona (CCiTUB), Universitat de Barcelona, Solé i Sabarís, 1-3, 08028 Barcelona, Spain. d Laboratorio de Estudios Cristalógraficos, IACT (CSIC-Universidad de Granada), Avda. de las Palmeras 4, Armilla, 18100 Granada, Spain. e Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain. * Corresponding Author E-mail address: josefina.pons@uab.cat (J. Pons) S1 Figure S1. X-ray diffractogram of {[Co(L)Cl2]·1/2H2O}n (1, bottom) measured at r.t. Calculated pattern from resolved crystal structure is also included (top) as a reference, from monocrystal XRD measured at 100(2) K. Figure S2. X-ray diffractogram of [Cu2(L)Cl4] (2, bottom) measured at r.t. Calculated pattern from resolved crystal structure is also shown (top) as a reference, from monocrystal XRD measured at 293(2) K. S2 Figure S3. FTIR-ATR spectrum of compound 1 Figure S4. FTIR-ATR spectrum of compound 2 S3 Figure S5. UV-Vis spectra of 1 (CH2Cl2, 1.06·10-3 M) measured at r.t. Figure S6. UV-Vis spectra of 2 (1.25·10-3 M) in MeOH measured at r.t. S4 S5