Bis{2-[(2-pyrid­yl)imino­meth­yl]phenolato}copper(II)

In the title compound, [Cu(C(12)H(9)N(2)O)(2)], the Cu(II) atom lies on a crystallographic inversion center and has a nearly square-planar geometry. The Cu(II) center coordinates to the phenolic O and azomethine N atoms of the two symmetry-related 2-[(2-pyrid­yl)imino­meth­yl]phenolate ligands. The pyridyl N atoms do not coordinate to the Cu(II) atom but participate in intra­molecular C—H⋯N hydrogen bonding. π–π stacking between the benzene rings and between the pyridyl rings [centroid–centroid distances 3.8142 (5) and 3.8142 (5) Å, respectively] links the mol­ecules into a chain propagating parallel to [100].