Excitingly, EXAFS studies on both frameworks confirm that the MOF-supported metal sites reside in well-defined ligand environments that closely resemble their molecular counterparts. The Ni K-edge EXAFS spectrum of 1-(IP)NiCl2 is shown in Fig. . The EXAFS data was best fit with three N/O atoms at a distance of 2.03(6) Å and two Cl atoms at 2.29(7) Å (Table ). The presence of an additional ligand is expected, as coordinating methanol is used in the metalation and washing procedure. These bond distances are consistent with the DFT optimized structure for 1-(IP)NiCl2 (Fig. , Table ), as well as with previously reported five-coordinate nickel(II) iminopyridine complexes, which show average Ni-N/O and Ni-Cl distances of ~2.0-2.1 Å and ~2.3 Å, respectively (see Table for a tabulation of reference compounds).