Bis(2-aminopyridine-κN1)bis(benzoato-κ2O,O′)cadmium(II)

In the title compound, [Cd(C7H5O2)(2)(C5H6N2)(2)], the Cd-II atom is hexacoordinated by four O atoms from two crystallographically independent benzoate anions, and two pyridine N atoms from two crystallographically independent 2-aminopyridine molecules in a distorted octahedral geometry. In the crystal structure, the metal complexes are connected by N-H center dot center dot center dot O hydrogen bonding between the carboxylate O atoms of the benzoate anions and the amino H atoms of the 2-aminopyridine ligands. The benzoate and the aminopyridine rings are stacked in the direction of the crystallographic a axis, indicating pi-pi stacking interactions are present [centroid-centroid distance = 3.6790 (15) angstrom