Το work with title A study of crystal packing in a series of closely related square-planar palladium(II) and platinum(II) complexes by Psyllaki Eleftheria, Bardwell David A., Crossle John G., Orpen, A. Guy, Jeffer John C., Tilley Elizabeth E. M. is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Bibliographic Citation
D. A. Bardwell, J. G. Crossley, J. C. Jeffery, A. G. Orpen, E. Psillakis, E. E. Tilley, M. D Ward, "A study of crystal packing in a series of closely related square-planar palladium(II) and platinum(II) complexes, " Polyhendron, vol. 13, no. 15–16, pp. 2291–2300, Aug. 1994. doi: 10.1016/S0277-5387(00)88139-5
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-5387(00)88139-5
The crystal structures of the series of four-coordinate complexes [PdL1Cl) · CH2Cl2 (1·CH2Cl2), [PtL1Cl]·CH2Cl2 (2·CH2Cl2), [PdL3Cl][PF6 · CH2Cl2 (3 · CH2Cl2) and [PdL4Cl][PF6 (4) [HL1 = 6-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-2,2′-bipyridine; L3 = 6-(2-dimethylaminophenyl)-2,2′-bipyridine; L4 = 2-(2-dimethylaminophenyl)-1,10-phenanthroline] are compared and contrasted to examine the extent to which aromatic π-stacking interactions contribute to crystal packing. Complexes 1 and 2 have very similar planar molecular structures but stack in different ways; molecules of 1 form a linear stack in which overlap of the aromatic ligands is maximized between adjacent molecules and there is no PdPd interaction, whereas in 2 there are axial PtPt interactions within the linear stack but less overlap between adjacent aromatic ligands.