Molecular sheets in the crystal structure of a Ba(II) complex with imidazole-4,5-dicarboxylate and water ligands

The structure of poly-tetraaquabis(mu-Himidazole-4,5-dicarboxylato-N, O;-O') barium(II) dihydrate, Ba(C5H3N2O4)(2)(H2O)(4) (.) 2H(2)O is built of molecular sheets in which singly-deprotonated imidazole-4,5-dicarboxylate [H(4,5-IDA)] bridges metal ions using its N, O bonding moiety and one oxygen atom of its second carboxylate group. Each barium(II) is coordinated by N, O bonding moieties of two ligands, two carboxylate oxygen atoms of two other ligands and four waters. The coordination number of Ba(II) is ten, and the coordination polyhedron contains fourteen faces. A network of hydrogen bonds is responsible for the stability of the crystal.