Dichlorido[1-(1,10-phenanthrolin-2-yl)-2-pyridone]cadmium(II)

Abstract

In the title mononuclear complex, [CdCl2(C17H11N3O)], the CdII ion assumes a distorted trigonal–bipyramidal coordination geometry. The pyridone plane is twisted out of the 1,10-phenanthroline mean plane by 43.8 (3)°. In the crystal structure, short intermolecular distances [3.627 (4)–3.671 (4) Å] between the centroids of the six- and five-membered Cd-containing rings suggest the existence of π–π interactions, which link the molecules into stacks along the a axis.