Bis{2-[(2-Pyridyl)Iminomethyl]Phenolato}Copper(Ii)

In the title compound, [Cu(C12H9N2O)(2)], the Cu-II atom lies on a crystallographic inversion center and has a nearly square-planar geometry. The Cu-II center coordinates to the phenolic O and azomethine N atoms of the two symmetry-related 2-[(2-pyridyl) iminomethyl] phenolate ligands. The pyridyl N atoms do not coordinate to the CuII atom but participate in intramolecular C-H center dot center dot center dot N hydrogen bonding. pi-pi stacking between the benzene rings and between the pyridyl rings [centroid-centroid distances 3.8142 (5) and 3.8142 (5) angstrom, respectively] links the molecules into a chain propagating parallel to [100].