Aqua-bis-(benzoato-κO)(1,10-phenanthroline-κN,N')zinc(II).

The Zn atom in the title compound, [Zn(C(7)H(5)O(2))(2)(C(12)H(8)N(2))(H(2)O)], is five-coordinate in a distorted trigonal-bipyramidal coordination environment involving two O atoms of two monodentate benzoates, two N atoms of a 1,10-phenanthroline mol-ecule and one O atom of a water mol-ecule. The axial positions are occupied by a carboxyl-ate O atom from the benzoate ligand and an N atom from the 1,10-phenanthroline ligand [N-Zn-O = 146.90†(7)°]. The water mol-ecule forms an intra-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bond; an inter-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bond gives rise to a dimer.