Table 3. Experimental details.

Crystal data
Chemical formula	[Co(C8H5N2O2)2(C7H6N2)2]
M r	617.49
Crystal system, space group	Monoclinic, P21/c
Temperature (K)	273
a, b, c (Å)	10.449 (4), 13.111 (5), 11.508 (5)
β (°)	113.427 (17)
V (Å3)	1446.6 (11)
Z	2
Radiation type	Mo Kα
μ (mm−1)	0.64
Crystal size (mm)	0.42 × 0.28 × 0.08
Data collection
Diffractometer	Bruker APEXII CCD
Absorption correction	Multi-scan (SADABS; Krause et al., 2015 ▸)
Tmin, Tmax	0.672, 0.754
No. of measured, independent and observed [I ≥ 2u(I)] reflections	3327, 3324, 1747
R int	0.050
(sin θ/λ)max (Å−1)	0.651
Refinement
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)], wR(F2), S	0.119, 0.337, 1.01
No. of reflections	3324
No. of parameters	196
No. of restraints	120
H-atom treatment	H atoms treated by a mixture of independent and constrained refinement
Δρmax, Δρmin (e Å−3)	2.22, −1.92

Computer programs: APEX2 and SAINT (Bruker, 2014 ▸), OLEX2.refine (Bourhis et al., 2015 ▸), OLEX2 (Dolomanov et al., 2009 ▸), Mercury (Macrae et al., 2020 ▸), ShelXle (Hübschle et al., 2011 ▸) and PLATON (Spek, 2020 ▸).