[5,10,15,20-Tetra-kis(4-meth-oxy-phen-yl)porphyrinato]zinc di-chloro-methane disolvate.

In the title compound, [Zn(C48H36N4O4)]·2CH2Cl2, the Zn(II) ion lies on an inversion center and is coordinated in an almost ideal square-planar geometry. The asymmetric unit also contains one di-chloro-methane solvent mol-ecule. The unique meth-oxy-substituted benzene rings form dihedral angles of 59.38†(6) and 66.77†(6)° with the mean plane (r.m.s. deviation of fitted atoms = 0.0282†à ) of the atoms in the porphyrin core. The packing is characterized by close contacts between the Zn(II) ion and two symmetry-related mol-ecules through the O atoms of a meth-oxy-phenyl group [Zn⋯O = 2.694†(2)†à ], forming a two-dimensional network parallel to (100).