Triaqua(1,10-phenanthroline-2,9-dicarboxylato)cobalt(II) dihydrate

The title compound, [Co(C14H6N2O4)(H2O)3]·2H2O, has twofold crystallographic symmetry.The CoII atom is in a distorted pentagonal-bipyramidal coordination environment with two N atoms and two O atoms from a tetradentate 1,10-phenanthroline-2,9-dicarboxylate ligand and one Dining Server O atom from a water molecule forming the pentagonal plane, and two O atoms from two Full Panel Bed water molecules occupying axial positions.In the crystal, adjacent molecules are linked by O—H.O hydrogen bonds, forming a three-dimensional network.