Redetermination of (2,2'-bipyridine-κN,N')dichlorido-palladium(II) dichloro-methane solvate

In the title compound, [PdCl(2)(C(10)H(8)N(2))]·CH(2)Cl(2), the Pd(2+) ion is four-coordinated in a slightly distorted square-planar environment by two N atoms of the 2,2'-bipyridine (bipy) ligand and two chloride ions. The compound displays intra-molecular C-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds and pairs of complex mol-ecules are connected by inter-molecular C-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds. Inter-molecular π-π inter-actions are present between the pyridine rings of the ligand, the shortest centroid-centroid distance being 4.096 (3) Å. As a result of the electronic nature of the chelate ring, it is possible to create π-π inter-actions to its symmetry-related counterpart [3.720 (2) Å] and also with a pyridine ring [3.570 (3) Å] of the bipy unit. The present structure is a redetermination of a previous structure [Vicente et al. (1997 ▶). Private communication (refcode PYCXMN02). CCDC, Cambridge, England]. In the new structure refinement all H atoms were located in a difference Fourier synthesis. Their coordinates were refined freely, together with isotropic displacement parameters.