Di­bromo­tetrakis(4-methyl­imidazole)copper(II) dihydrate

In the structure of the title compound, [CuBr₂(C₄H₆­N₂)₄]·2H₂O, the Cu^II atoms are surrounded by four 4-methyl­imidazole ligands within a slightly distorted square plane. The coordination sphere is completed by two contacts to bromide ligands which are elongated due to Jahn–Teller distortion. The coordination polyhedra around the Cu^II cations can be described as strongly distorted octahedral. There are two crystallographically independent half-complexes in the asymmetric unit, in which the Cu^II cations are located on centres of inversion; the two crystallographically independent 4-methyl­imidazole ligands, the bromide anions and the water mol­ecules occupy general positions. The complexes are connected via N—H⋯Br, N—H⋯O and O—H⋯O hydrogen bonding.