metal-organic compounds
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In the title complex, {[Ni2(C14H4N2O8)(H2O)6]·2H2O}n, the two NiII atoms are located in different special positions (one on a twofold rotation axis and the second on a centre of symmetry) and have different distorted octahedral environments (one by two N atoms from a bipyridine unit, two O atoms from two water molecules and two O atoms from two carboxylate groups, and the second by four O atoms from four water molecules and two O atoms from two carboxylate groups). Thus, the environments of the NiII atoms may be denoted as NiN2O4 and NiO6. In the crystal, there exists an extensive network of classical O—HO hydrogen bonds.