(Adamantane‐1,3‐dicarboxylato‐κO)aquabis(1,10‐phenanthroline‐κ2N,N′)cobalt(II) tetrahydrate

The CoII atom in the racemic title compound, [Co(C12H14O4)(C12H8N2)2(H2O)]·4H2O, is chelated by two N-heterocycles; it is also linked datively to a water mol­ecule and covalently to a single O atom of the dicarboxyl­ate dianion to yield a cis-CoO2N4 octa­hedral geometry. A plausible O—H⋯O hydrogen-bonding scheme results in the component species being linked into a chain.