Diaqua-bis(4-methyl-amino-benzoato-κO)bis-(nicotinamide-κN ¹)nickel(II)

The title Ni^II complex, [Ni(C8H8NO2)2(C6H6N2O)2(H2O)2], is centrosymmetric with the Ni atom on an inversion center. The mol-ecule contains two 4-methyl-amino-benzoate (MAB) and two nicotinamide (NA) ligands and two coordinated water mol-ecules, all ligands being monodentate. The four O atoms in the equatorial plane around the Ni atom form a slightly distorted square-planar arrangement, while the slightly distorted octa-hedral coordination is completed by the two N atoms of the NA ligands in the axial positions. The dihedral angle between the carboxyl-ate group and the adjacent benzene ring is 2.09 (14)°, while the pyridine and benzene rings are oriented at a dihedral angle of 66.15 (4)°. In the crystal structure, inter-molecular O - H⋯O and N - H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into a three-dimensional network.