Bis(1,10-phenanthroline-κN,N')(phenyl-acetato-κO)copper(II) phenyl-acetate hexa-hydrate.

In the title compound, Cu(C(8)H(7)O(2))(C(12)H(8)N(2))(2)·6H(2)O, the Cu atom is in a distorted square-pyramidal coordination environment. The six crystallographically independent uncoordinated water mol-ecules are inter-connected by hydrogen bonds, completing dodeca-water (H(2)O)(12) clusters which are hydrogen bonded to the carboxyl-ate groups of phenyl-acetate anions, building up one-dimensional anionic chains propagating along [100]. Between the cationic and anionic chains are hydrogen bonds from water mol-ecules to the carboxyl-ate O atoms belonging to the phenyl-acetato ligands.