trans-Dichloridobis(quinoline-κN)palladium(II)

• Main Author: Kwang Ha
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Union of Crystallography 2012-02-01
• Series: Acta Crystallographica Section E
• Online Access: http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S1600536811055954

In the title complex, [PdCl2(C9H7N)2], the PdII ion is four-coordinated in an essentially square-planar environment defined by two N atoms from two quinoline ligands and two Cl− anions. The Pd atom is located on an inversion centre, and thus the asymmetric unit contains one half of the complex; the PdN2Cl2 unit is exactly planar. The dihedral angle between the PdN2Cl2 unit and quinoline ligand is 85.63 (8)°. In the crystal, the complex molecules are stacked into columns along the b axis. In the columns, several intermolecular π–π interactions between the six-membered rings are present, the shortest ring centroid–centroid distance being 3.764 (3) Å between pyridine rings.