Di-aqua-bis-(pyridine-2-carboxyl-ato-κ(2) N,O)zinc di-methyl-formamide hemisolvate.

In the title compound, [Zn(C6H4NO2)2(H2O)2]·0.5C3H7NO, the Zn(II) ion is coordinated in a distorted octa-hedral N2O4 environment by two N,O-chelating pyridine-2-carboxyl-ate ligands and two cis water mol-ecules. The chelating pyridine-2-carboxyl-ate ligands create two five-membered Zn/N/C/C/O rings, which form a dihedral angle of 86.4 (2)°. In the crystal, O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the complex mol-ecules into a two-dimensional network parallel to (100). The di-methyl-formamide solvent mol-ecule is disordered about a twofold rotation axis.