| Summary: | The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Ni(C6H6N2O)2(H2O)4](C7H5O3)2·4H2O, contains one-half of the complex cation with the NiII ion located on an inversion center, a 3-hydroxybenzoate counter-anion and two uncoordinated water molecules. Four water O atoms in the equatorial plane around the NiII ion [Ni—O = 2.052 (2) and 2.079 (2) Å] form a slightly distorted square-planar arrangement, which is completed up to a distorted octahedron by the two N atoms [Ni—N = 2.075 (3) Å] from two isonicotinamide ligands. In the anion, the carboxylate group is twisted from the attached benzene ring by 8.8 (3)°. In the crystal, a three-dimensional hydrogen-bonding network, formed by classical O—H...O and N—H...O hydrogen bonds, consolidates the crystal packing, which also exhibits π–π interactions between the benzene and pyridine rings, with centroid–centroid distances of 3.455 (2) and 3.621 (2) Å, respectively.
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