The coordination polymer [Eu-2(C10H9NO2)(6)(H2O)(2)](n) with o-acetamidobenzoic acid and 1,10-phenanthroline has been synthesized by means of hydrothermal way, and characterized. It crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P2(1)/n, with a=1.074 19(10) nm, b=1.063 39(9) nm, c=2.496 7(2) nm, beta=100.2610(10)degrees. The crystal structure shows that four bi-dentate bridging o-acetamidobenzoic acid groups and two europium (III) ions form a binuclear cage structure in [Eu-2(C10H9NO2)(6)(H2O)(2)](n), where the distance between Eu(1) and Eu (1) is 0.4289 nm. Two neighboring cage structures are lin...