Abstract Reaction of copper(I) bromide with pyrimidine in acetonitrile leads to the formation of crystals of the new coordination polymer poly[(CuBr)2(μ2-pyrimidine-N,N’)]. Indexing of the reflections yields a monoclinic primitive cell with a = 3.9119(2), b = 13.525(1), c = 15.346(1)Å , β = 97.29(1)° and V =805.4(1) Å3. Inspection of the reciprocal space shows weak reflections which might be indicative of a superstructure leading to a doubling of the crystallographic c-axis. The structure can be solved in space group P21/m but the refinement leads to very poor reliability factors (wR2 for all refl.: 62.57%, R1 for all Fo > 4σ (Fo) = 27.84%). A twin refinement assuming merohedral twinning drastically reduces the R-values (wR2 for all refl.: 7.27%, R1 for all Fo > 4σ (Fo) = 2.64%) and a structure model is obtained which consists of two crystallographically independent copper and bromine atoms and two pyrimidine ligands in the asymmetric unit. However, carefull inspection of this structure shows that the two crystallographically independent layers formed by the connection of the building blocks are very similar and that they are related by a translation by half of the crystallographic c-axis. As a result of that, the crystal is just a partial merohedral twin and the reflections which led to the assumption that the c-axis is twice as long are generated by the second twin domain. The structure was refined with the correct twin law (wR2 for all refl.: 6.70%, R1 for all Fo > 4σ (Fo) = 2.57%). By this procedure a reasonable structure model is obtained which consists of one crystallographically independent copper and bromine atom and one pyrimidine ligand. In the crystal structure CuBr double chains are formed which are connected into layers via μ-N,N’ coordination by the N-donor ligands. On heating, the compound loses all of the ligands and transforms into CuBr within only one single step in an exothermic reaction.