Bis[μ-2-(pyridin-2-yl)ethano-lato]bis-[bromidocopper(II)].

The title compound, [Cu(2)Br(2)(C(7)H(8)NO)(2)], was synthesized by reaction of CuBr(2) with 2-(pyridin-2-yl)ethanol (hep-H) in methanol. The asymmetric unit consists of one hep ligand and a CuBr unit. The Cu(2+) ion is thereby coordinated by the N atom and the deprotonated hydroxy O atom in a distorted square-planar geometry that is completed by another O atom. The latter acts as bridging ligand towards the second, symmetry-equivalent, Cu atom, thus generating a centrosymmetric dimeric unit, with the inversion centre halfway between the Cu atoms. These units are linked via C-H⋯Br and C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, leading to the formation of a hydrogen-bonded one-dimensional-polymeric chain along a..