Tetrakis[μ-3-(3-pyridyl)acrylato-κO:O']bis{(1,10-phenanthroline-κN,N')[3-(3-pyridyl)acrylato-κO,O']europium(III)} pentahydrate.

The europium(III) ion in the title compound, [Eu(2)(C(8)H(6)NO(2))(6)(C(12)H(8)N(2))(2)]·5H(2)O, is coordinated by seven carboxyl-ate O atoms and two N atoms from one phenanthroline mol-ecule. The carboxyl-ate groups of 3-(3-pyrid-yl)acrylate link pairs of europium(III) ions, forming centrosymmetric dinuclear units, which further assemble into a sheet parallel to the (001) plane through hydrogen-bonding inter-actions involving the uncoordinated water mol-ecules. One water molecule is disordered.