A new organic-inorganic hybrid salt pipéridinium trans-diaquabis(oxalato)chromate(III) tetrahydrate, (C 5 H 10 NH 2 )[Cr(C 2 O 4 ) 2 (H 2 O) 2 ]•4H 2 O (1), has been synthesized in water and characterized by FTIR and UV-Vis spectroscopies, elemental and thermal analyses and by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. 1 crystallizes in the orthorhombic non-centrosymmetric space group Cmc2 1 with the unit cell parameters a = 7.4329(3), b = 9.9356(5), c = 23.6756(11) Å, α = β = γ = 90˚, V = 1748.45(14) Å 3 and Z = 4. The structure of 1 consists of [Cr(C 2 O 4 ) 2 (H 2 O) 2 ] − mononuclear anions, piperidinium cations and uncoordinated water molecules. The Cr III ion in the complex [Cr(C 2 O 4 ) 2 (H 2 O) 2 ] − is coordinated in a slightly distorted octahedral environment by four O atoms from two chelating oxalate dianions in the equatorial plane, and two O atoms from trans-coordinated water molecules occupying the apical positions. In the crystal, N-H⋯O and O-H⋯O hydrogen bond interactions connect the components into a 3-D framework. The IR spectrum of 1 is consistent with the presence of the various molecular building constituents, namely oxalato and aqua ligands, piperidinium cations and solvent water molecules. The UV-Vis spectrum shows two absorption bands around 564 and 416 nm which are