Tetra-μ-benzoato-bis{[4-(pyrrolidin-1-yl)pyridine]zinc(II)}

The central part of the title centrosymmetric dinuclear complex, [Zn(2)(C(7)H(5)O(2))(4)(C(9)H(12)N(2))(2)], has a paddle-wheel conformation with four benzoate ligands bridging two symmetry-related Zn(II) ions. The distorted square-pyramidal coordination environment around the Zn(II) ion is completed by an N atom from a 4-(pyrrolidin-1-yl) pyridine ligand. The Zn center dot center dot center dot Zn separation of 2.9826 (12) angstrom does not represent a formal direct metal-metal bond. The Zn(II) ion is displaced by 0.381(1)angstrom from the mean plane of the four basal O atoms. Two of the C atoms of the pyrrolidine ring are disordered over two sites with refined occupancies of 0.53 (2) and 0.47 (2).