title: Chlorido{5-chloro-2-[2-(methyl-sulfanyl)phenyl-diazen-yl]phenyl}-platinum(II).
abstract: The title compound, [Pt(C(13)H(10)ClN(2)S)Cl], contains a Pt atom tetra-coordinated by a benzene C, a diazene N, a Cl and an S atom in an approximately square-planar geometry. The mol-ecules dimerize through a nonbonded S⋯S inter-action [S⋯S = 3.523 (18) Å]. There are no hydrogen bonds and the crystal packing is stabilized by four inter-molecular π-π inter-actions; the centroid-centroid distances are 3.804 (3), 3.638 (3), 3.804 (3) and 3.638 (3) Å, and the corresponding perpendicular distances are 3.369, 3.448, 3.406 and 3.466 Å.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi 110 016, India.
authors.forename: Vivek
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bagchi
authors.forename: Debkumar
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bandyopadhyay