(Benzoato-κO)bis-(1,10-phenanthroline-κN,N')copper(II) chloride benzoic acid disolvate

In the title complex, [Cu(C(7)H(5)O(2))(C(12)H(8)N(2))(2)]Cl·2C(6)H(5)CO-OH, the Cu(II) ion is coordinated by one carboxyl-ate O atom from a benzoate anion and four N atoms from two phenantroline ligands in a distorted five-coordinate trigonal-bipyramidal CuON(4) chromophore. The Cu(2+) and the Cl(-) ion are imposed by a twofold rotation axiss which also bisects the equally disordered benzoate anion. In the crystal, the mol-ecules are assembled into chains along [010] by C-H⋯Cl, O-H⋯Cl and C-H⋯O hydrogen-bonding inter-actions. The resulting chains are further connected into two-dimensional supra-molecular layers parallel to [100] by inter-chain π⋯π stacking inter-actions [centroid-centroid distance = 3.823 (5) Å] between the phenanthroline ligands and the benzoic acid mol-ecules, and by C-H⋯O hydrogen-bonding inter-actions. Strong π⋯π stacking inter-actions between adjacent phenantroline ligands [3.548 (4) Å] assemble the layers into a three-dimensional supra-molecular architecture.