Dichlorido(1-{(E)-[phen-yl(pyridin-2-yl-κN)methyl-idene]amino-κN}pyrrolidin-2-one-κO)copper(II) monohydrate.

The Cu(II) atom in the title compound, [CuCl(2)(C(16)H(15)N(3)O)]·H(2)O, is N,N',O-chelated by the neutral Schiff base ligand and exists in a square-pyramidal geometry. It is displaced by 0.316 (1) Å out of the square plane (r.m.s. deviation = 0.015 Å) in the direction of the apical Cl atom. The apical Cl atoms of adjacent complex units are hydrogen-bond acceptors to two water mol-ecules, the inter-action generating a centrosymmetric dimer through a cyclic R(4) (2)(8) association.