Di-μ-chlorido-bis-{[2-(di-tert-butyl-phosphan-yl)biphenyl-3-yl-κ(2)C(3),P]palladium(II)} dichloro-methane disolvate

Cedric W Holzapfel; Bernard Omondi

doi:10.1107/S1600536812051136

Di-μ-chlorido-bis-{[2-(di-tert-butyl-phosphan-yl)biphenyl-3-yl-κ(2)C(3),P]palladium(II)} dichloro-methane disolvate

Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2013 Feb 1;69(Pt 2):m86. doi: 10.1107/S1600536812051136. Epub 2013 Jan 9.

Authors

Cedric W Holzapfel¹, Bernard Omondi

Affiliation

¹ Research Centre for Synthesis and Catalysis, Department of Chemistry, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park Kingsway Campus, PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa.

Abstract

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Pd(2)Cl(2)(C(20)H(26)P)(2)]·2CH(2)Cl(2), contains one half-mol-ecule of the palladium complex and a dichloro-methane solvent mol-ecule. In the complex, two Pd(II) atoms are bridged by two Cl atoms, with the other two coordination sites occupied by a C atom of the biphenyl system and a P atom, resulting in a distorted square-planar coordination geometry of the Pd(II) atom and a cyclo-metallated four-membered ring. The Pd(2)Cl(2) unit is located about an inversion center. The planes of the rings of the biphenyl system make a dihedral angle of 66.36 (11)°.