{6,6'-Dimeth-oxy-2,2'-[o-phenyl-enebis(nitrilo-methyl-idyne)]diphenolato}cobalt(II) dichloro-methane disolvate.

The title compound, [Co(C(22)H(18)N(2)O(4))]·2CH(2)Cl(2), was isolated from the reaction of N,N'(o-phenyl-ene)bis-(vanillalimine) (H(2)L) with Co(SCN)(2). The crystal structure contains a Co(II) ion surrounded by the L(2-) ligand in a slightly distorted square-planar fashion. Inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen-bonding contacts between the dichloro-methane solvent mol-ecules and the meth-oxy or carboxyl-ate O atoms are observed in the crystal structure. The planar complex mol-ecules stack through inversion related π-π inter-actions between the six-membered rings of the vanillalimine half ligands. The distance between centroids is 3.498 (2) Å and the perpendicular distance is 3.345 Å. A partial stacking is observed with a centroid-centroid distance of 3.830 (2) Å, a perpendicular distance of 3.350 Å and a slippage of 1.856 Å.