Here we report the intercalation of a MnII-CrIII oxalate-bridged extended network into the interlamellar space offered by a ZnII-AlIII host. The resulting material exhibits ferrimagnetic ordering below 3 K from dominant antiferromagnetic interactions between metallic centres through the oxalate linker.
![Intercalation of two-dimensional oxalate-bridged molecule-based magnets into layered double hydroxide hosts](https://www.iciq.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Intercalation-of-two-dimension_9476.gif)