The title compound, [Co(C8H8BrN4O)2]NO3·C3H7NO, is formed of discrete [CoL 2](+) cations, nitrate anions and di-methyl-formamide (DMF) mol-ecules of crystallization. The cation has no crystallographically imposed symmetry. The ligand mol-ecules are deprotonated at the phenol O atom and octa-hedrally coordinate the Co(III) atoms through the azomethine N and phenolate O atoms in a mer configuration. The deprotonated ligand mol-ecules adopt an almost planar conformation. In the crystal lattice, the cations are arranged in layers in the ab plane divided by the nitrate anions and solvent mol-ecules. No π-π stacking is observed. All of the amine H atoms are involved in hydrogen bonding to nitrate, DMF or ligand O atoms or to one of the Br atoms, forming two-dimensional networks parallel to (100).
Keywords: 5-bromosalicylaldehyde; Schiff base ligand; aminoguanidine; crystal structure; monomeric octahedral CoIII complex.