[μ-1,3-Dioxo-1,3-bis(pyridin-2-yl)propane-2,2-diido-κ2N,C2:κ2C2,N′]bis[(1,3-diphenylpropane-1,3-dionato-κ2O,O′)palladium(II)](Pd—Pd)

Abstract

The title compound, [Pd2(C13H8N2O2)(C15H11O2)2], crystallized from a mixture of ethanol and n-hexanes. The structure is the first example of β-diketonate in a dianionic κ2C-coordination complex containing a PdII—PdII bond. Both PdII atoms adopt a pseudo square-planar coordination geometry. The molecular packing involves π-interactions between the phenyl rings of the 1,3-diphenylpropane-1,3-dionato ligands with centroid–centroid distances in the range 3.823 (2)–3.868 (2) Å.