A large amount of work has been done in recent years on the structure and magnetic properties of 2-aminopyridine copper halide complexes and 2-aminopyridinium tetrahalocuprate salts. There has been little work done on the 2-hydroxypyridine analogue to this system. The 2-hydroxypyridine system is interesting because the hydroxyl group is in the same position as the amino group in the 2-aminopyridine system and the lone pairs on the oxygen atom and the hydrogen atom have the potential to act as hydrogen bond donor and acceptor sites, similar to the amino functionality. Presented here is the preliminary work on the synthesis and characterization of 2-hydroxypyridine copper (II) halide complexes and 2-hydroxypyridinium tetrahalocuprate salts.