Crystal structure of bis­(acetato-κO)di­aqua­(2,2′-bi­pyridine-κ2 N,N′)manganese(II)

In the title monomeric manganese(II) complex, [Mn(CH 3 COO) 2 (C 10 H 8 N 2 )(H 2 O) 2 ], the metal ion is coordinated by a bidentate 2,2′-bi­pyridine (bpy) ligand, two water mol­ecules and two axial acetate anions, resulting in a highly distorted octa­hedral environment. The aqua ligands are stabilized by the formation of strong intra­molecular hydrogen bonds with the uncoordinated acetate O atoms, giving rise to pseudo-bridging arrangement of the terminal acetate groups. In the crystal, the mol­ecules form [010] zigzag chains via O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds involving the aqua ligands and acetate O atoms. Further, the water and bpy ligands are trans to each other, and are arranged in an off-set fashion showing inter­molecular π–π stacking between nearly parallel bi­py rings, the centroid–centroid separations being 3.8147 (12) and 3.9305 (13) Å.