{6,6′-Dimeth­oxy-2,2′-[o-phenyl­enebis(nitrilo­methyl­idyne)]diphenolato}cobalt(II) dichloro­methane 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-phenyl­ene)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. Inter­molecular C—H⋯O hydrogen-bonding contacts between the dichloro­methane solvent mol­ecules and the meth­oxy or carboxyl­ate O atoms are observed in the crystal structure. The planar complex mol­ecules stack through inversion related π–π inter­actions 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.