trans-Di-μ-chlorido-bis{chlorido[tris(3,5-dimethylphenyl)phosphane-κP]palladium(II)} dichloromethane monosolvate

• Main Authors: Wade L. Davis, Alfred Muller
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Union of Crystallography 2012-12-01
• Series: Acta Crystallographica Section E
• Online Access: http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S1600536812048556

In the dimeric title compound, [Pd2Cl4{P(C8H9)3}2]·CH2Cl2, the metal complex molecule is situated about an inversion centre and is accompanied by a dichloromethane solvent molecule situated on a twofold rotation axis. The PdII atom has a slightly distorted square-planar coordination sphere. The effective cone angle for the tris(3,5-dimethylphenyl)phosphane ligand was calculated to be 169°. In the crystal, the metal complex and solvent molecules are linked via C—H...Cl interactions, generating chains along [10-2]. There are also C—H...π and weak π–π interactions present [centroid–centroid distance = 3.990 (2) Å, plane–plane distance = 3.6352 (15) Å and ring slippage = 1.644 Å], forming of a three-dimensional structure.