(2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′)bis(3-hydroxybenzoato-κO)copper(II)

In the title compound, [Cu(C7H5O3)2(C14H12N2)], the CuII ion is located on a twofold rotation axis and is coordinated by a 2,9-dimethyl-1,10- phenanthroline (dmphen) mol-ecule and two 3-hydroxy-benzoate anions in a distorted tetra-hedral geometry. Mol-ecules are linked into a one-dimensional framework by O - H⋯O hydrogen bonding. The packing is further stabilized by π-π stacking between parallel dmphen rings of neighboring mol-ecules, with a face-to-face distance of 3.385 (18) Å. © International Union of Crystallography 2007.