trans-Bis[4-amino-3,5-bis­(2-pyrid­yl)-4H-1,2,4-triazole-κN (3)]diaqua­cobalt(II) bis­(3-carb­oxy-5-nitro­benzoate)

The title complex, [Co(C(12)H(10)N(6))(2)(H(2)O)(2)](C(8)H(4)NO(6))(2), is composed of a mononuclear cobalt(II) cation and two 3-carb­oxy-5-nitro­benzoate anions for charge balance. In the cation, the Co(II) atom is six-coordinated in a distorted octa­hedral geometry. It bonds to two O atoms of two water mol­ecules, and two pairs of N atoms from two 4-amino-3,5-bis­(2-pyrid­yl)-4H-1,2,4-triazole mol­ecules, which behave as bidentate chelating ligands. There are intra­molecular N—H⋯N hydrogen bonds in the cation. In the crystal, there are a number of inter­molecular N—H⋯O and O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, as well as inter­molecular π–π stacking inter­actions [centroid–centroid distances = 3.657 (2) and 3.847 (2) Å], that link the mol­ecules into two-dimensional networks lying parallel to the ab plane. The presence of C—H⋯O inter­actions leads to the formation of a three-dimensional network.