“…In the presence of a diamine and Ni II , related bis-(hydrazonoimine) complexes are formed displaying an unusual behavior of the effective magnetic moment at low temperature (Khudina et al, 2007). A corresponding chelate complex, formed of 3-[2-(3-nitrophenyl)hydrazin-1-ylidene]pentane-2,4-dione (Marten et al, 2018) and bis(ethylenediamine)copper(II) chloride yielded a co-crystal consisting of N,N 0 -ethylenebis{3-[2-(3-nitrophenyl)hydrazine-1-ylidene]-4oxopentane-2-iminato}copper(II) and 3-[2-(3-nitrophenyl)hydrazine-1-ylidene]pentane-2,4-dione in a 1:1 stoichiometric composition (the title compound), whose crystal structure is reported on herein.…”