Bis(3-hydroxy-phenyl-acetato-κO,O')bis-(1H-imidazole-κN)nickel(II).

ABSTRACT

In the title mononuclear complex, [Ni(C(8)H(7)O(3))(2)(C(3)H(4)N(2))(2)], the Ni(II) atom, lying on a twofold rotation axis, is coordinated by four carboxyl-ate O atoms from two bidentate 3-hydroxy-phenylacetato ligands and two N atoms from two imidazole mol-ecules in a distorted octa-hedral geometry. A three-dimensional network is formed via inter-molecular O-H⋯O and N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds and π-π stacking inter-actions between the imidazole and benzene rings of neighboring mol-ecules [centroid-centroid distance = 3.856 (2) Å].