Bis(μ-cyclohexane-1,3-dicarboxylato)-κ3O1:O4,O4′;κ3O1,O1′:O4-bis[aqua(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′)zinc(II)]

The cyclohexane-1,3-dicarboxylate dianion in the dinuclear centrosymmetric title compound, [Zn2(C8H10O4)2(C12H8N2)2(H2O)2], has a chair conformation with both carboxylate groups in equatorial positions. One carboxylate group chelates a ZnII atom, whereas the other binds through one O atom only to confer a six-coordinate status to the N-heterocycle-chelated water-coordinated ZnII atom. Adjacent dinuclear molecules are linked by O—H...O hydrogen bonds into a linear chain