Aqua[2,2′-(propane-1,3-diyl)bis(5-carboxy-1H-imidazole-4-carboxylato)-κ4N3,O4:N3′,O4′](pyridine-κN)cobalt(II)–4,4′-bipyridine (1/1)
In the title compound, [Co(C13H10N4O8)(C5H5N)(H2O)]·C10H8N2, the asymmetric unit comprises half a CoIIcomplex located on a mirror plane and half a cocrystallized molecule of 4,4′-bipyridine located on an inversion center. The CoIIion is six coordinate, with distorted octahedral geometry, ligated by two N atoms and two O atoms from a 2,2′-(propane-1,3-diyl)bis(5-carboxy-1H-imidazole-4-carboxylate) dianion, one N atom from a pyridine molecule and one coordinating water molecule. The Co—O bond lengths range from 2.076 (2) to 2.1441 (15) Å, while the Co—N bond lengths are 2.138 (3) and 2.1515 (17) Å. A two-dimensional network of N—H...O and O—H...N hydrogen bonds stabilizes the crystal packing. There are π–π interactions between the bipyridine and imidazole rings [centroid–centroid distance = 3.7694 (4) Å]. The propane-1,3-diyl group is disordered over two conformations, with refined occupancies of 0.755 (8) and 0.245 (8).