Tetra-aqua-bis[4-(imidazol-1-yl-κN)benzoato]manganese(II).

In the title compound, [Mn(C(10)H(7)N(2)O(2))(2)(H(2)O)(4)], the Mn(II) atom, lying on an inversion center, has an octa-hedral environment with four coordinated water mol-ecules in the equatorial plane and two N atoms from two 4-(imidazol-1-yl)benzoate ligands at the axial sites. The complex mol-ecules are connected into a three-dimensional network by extensive hydrogen bonds between the water mol-ecules and the carboxyl-ate O atoms.