title: Aqua-bis(dichloro-acetato-κO)(1,10-phenanthroline-κN,N')copper(II).
abstract: In the title complex, [Cu(C(2)HCl(2)O(2))(2)(C(12)H(8)N(2))(H(2)O)], the Cu(II) ion has a distorted square-pyramidal coordination geometry. The equatorial positions are occupied by two N atoms from a 1,10-phenanthroline ligand [Cu-N = 1.994 (3) and 2.027 (3) Å] and two O atoms from dichloro-acetate ligands and a water mol-ecule [Cu-O = 1.971 (2) and 1.939 (2) Å]. One O atom from another dichloro-acetate ligand occupies the apical positon [Cu-O = 2.152 (3) Å]. Inter-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into centrosymmetric dimers. The crystal packing also exhibits weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, π-π inter-actions [centroid-centroid distance = 3.734 (2) Å] and short inter-molecular Cl⋯Cl contacts [3.306 (2) and 3.278 (2) Å].
authors.forename: Yaru
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jianzhong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ning
authors.forename: Junshan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Chuan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhang