Tetra-kis[μ-2-(3-phenoxy-phen-yl)propionato-κO:O']bis-[(dimethyl-formamide-κO)copper(II)].

The title compound, [Cu(2)(C(15)H(13)O(3))(4)(C(3)H(7)NO)(2)], is formed by the chelate coordination of four racemic fenoprofenate (fenoprofenate is 2,3-phenoxyphenyl propionate) anions and two dimethyl-formamide mol-ecules to two copper(II) ions, building a paddle-wheel dinuclear mol-ecule. The distorted square-pyramidal coordination of each Cu(II) atom is made up of four O atoms of the four fenoprofenate units and another O atom from a dimethyl-formamide mol-ecule. The two enanti-omeric forms of the fenoprofenate anions are present in the complex, in an optically inactive centrosymmetric arrangement.