title: Trans-dichloro(dimethyl sulfide-kappa S)(pyridine-kappa N)platinum(II).
abstract: The structure of the title compound, [PtCl(2)(C(5)H(5)N)(C(2)H(6)S)], consists of discrete molecules in which the Pt-atom coordination is slightly distorted square planar. The Cl atoms are trans to each other, with a Cl-Pt-Cl angle of 176.60 (7) degrees. The pyridine ligand is rotated 64.5 (2) degrees from the Pt square plane and one of the Pt-Cl bonds essentially bisects the C-S-C angle of the dimethyl sulfide ligand. In the crystal structure, there are extensive weak C-H...Cl interactions, the shortest of which connects molecules into centrosymmetric dimers. A comparison of the structural trans influence on Pt-S and Pt-N distances for PtS(CH(3))(2) and Pt(pyridine) fragments, respectively, in square-planar Pt(II) complexes is presented.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul 97119-900, Brazil. rburrow@ewald.base.ufsm.br
authors.forename: Robert A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Burrow
authors.forename: Janaina T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Facco
authors.forename: Ernesto S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: David H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Farrar
authors.forename: Alan J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Lough