Abstract The ligand 3-(4-(1,3,5-trimethyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)phenyl)acetylacetone (1) combines a Pearson hard O,O′ chelating acetylacetone donor with a softer pyrazole N donor bridged by a phenylene spacer. Deprotonation and coordination to Cu^II leads to a square planar bis-acetylacetonato complex; interpreting the close proximity of an adjacent complex’s pyrazole moiety as an η 2 ${{η}}^{2}$ coordination to the axial Cu^II position leads to a two dimensional extended structure. The N donor capabilities are proven by coordination to AgPF₆ and AuCl; for Ag^I a cationic linear bis-pyrazole complex as a toluene solvate is obtained with toluene-pyrazole π-interactions and an essentially uncoordinated PF 6 - ${{\mathrm{PF}}_{6}}^{-}$ anion. In the case of AuCl a neutral linear coordination compound with one chlorido and one pyrazole ligand 1 is obtained. Comparing the dihedral angles with a closely related but shorter ligand reveals a larger rotational degree of freedom in 1, allowing for richer architectures in emerging coordination polymers.