Anhydrous polymeric zinc(II) octanoate

The structure of the title compound, poly­[zinc(II)-bis(μ-octanoato-O:O′)], [Zn(C8H15O2)2]n, consists of polymeric sheets parallel to (100) in which tetrahedrally coordinated Zn2+ cations are connected by carboxyl­ate bridges in a syn–anti arrangement.