(2,2′-Bipyridine)(pyridine-2,6-dicarboxyl­ato)oxidovanadium(IV) ethanol monosolvate

In the title compound, [V(C(7)H(3)NO(4))O(C(10)H(8)N(2))]·C(2)H(5)OH, the V(IV) atom exhibits a distorted octa-hedral coordination environment formed by two pyridyl N atoms of 2,2'-bipyridine (bpy), the vanadyl O atom, and two carboxyl-ate O atoms and one pyridyl N atom of the tridentate pyridine-2,6-dicarboxyl-ate (pydc(2-)) ligand. The pyridyl N atom of the pydc(2-) anion and one pyridyl N atom of bpy occupy the axial positions. O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds involving the ethanol solvent mol-ecule as donor and a carboxyl-ate O atom as acceptor atoms, as well as C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, together with π-π stacking inter-actions between adjacent aromatic rings (average centroid-centroid distance = 3.577 Å), seem to be effective in the stabilization of the crystal packing, resulting in the formation of a three-dimensional structure.