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metal-organic compounds
In the title compound, {2,2'-[1,3-pentanediylbis(iminomethyl)]diphenolato}copper(II)-ethanol (2/1), 2[Cu(C19H20N2O2)].C2H6O, the Cu atom is coordinated by an N2O2 donor set from the imine-phenol ligand in a distorted tetrahedral coordination geometry, with the two phenol O atoms being deprotonated. There are two `unsolvated' copper complexes and two ethanol-solvated copper complexes in the triclinic unit cell. The Cu-O and Cu-N distances are 1.891 (4)-1.897 (4) and 1.943 (5)-1.978 (5) Å, respectively. The angle between the two coordination planes defined by the ligating atoms of one complex (O11, O12, N11, N12) and those of the other independent complex (O21, O22, N21, N22) is 49.4 (2)°.