Dichlorido[1-(1-naphthyl-meth-yl)-3-(2-pyrid-yl)-1H-pyrazole-κN,N]palladium(II)

Abstract

In the title compound, [PdCl(2)(C(19)H(15)N(3))], the Pd(II) centre is four-coordinated by two N-atom donors from one 1-[3-(2-pyrid-yl)pyrazol-1-ylmeth-yl]naphthalene (L) ligand and by two Cl atoms in a distorted square-planar coordination geometry. In the crystal structure, adjacent Pd(II) mononuclear units form inter-molecular C-H⋯π inter-actions involving the benzene and pyridine rings of different L ligands and π-π stacking inter-actions between the pyrazolyl-pyridine and naphthalene rings of neighbouring L ligands, with a centroid-centroid separation of 3.522 (1) Å.

Fig. 1.

Molecular structure of the title compound with displacement ellipsoids drawn at the 30% probability level for non-H atoms.

Fig. 2.

Part of the crystal packing showing a two-dimensional network structure in the title compound formed by the co-effects of intermolecular C—H···π (dashed solid lines) and π···π stacking (dashed open lines) interactions. For the sake of clarity, only H atoms involved in the interactions are shown.