Tris(2-ethyl-1H-imidazole-κN)(terephthalato-κO)zinc(II)

The title compound, [Zn(C(8)H(4)O(4))(C(5)H(8)N(2))(3)], has a neutral monomeric structure in which one terephthalate dianion and three 2-ethyl-1H-imidazole ligands coordinate to the Zn(II) ion in a distorted tetra-hedral geometry. The methyl group of one of the ethyl groups is disordered over two positions with occupancies of 0.66 (2) and 0.34 (2). In the crystal structure, mol-ecules are linked into a three-dimensional hydrogen-bonded network by inter-molecular N-H⋯O interactions involving the uncoordinated carboxyl-ate O atoms.