title: Dichlorido[1-(1,10-phenanthrolin-2-yl)-2-pyridone]cadmium(II).
abstract: In the title mononuclear complex, [CdCl(2)(C(17)H(11)N(3)O)], the Cd(II) ion assumes a distorted trigonal-bipyramidal coordination geometry. The pyridone plane is twisted out of the 1,10-phenanthroline mean plane by 43.8 (3)°. In the crystal structure, short inter-molecular distances [3.627 (4)-3.671 (4) Å] between the centroids of the six- and five-membered Cd-containing rings suggest the existence of π-π inter-actions, which link the mol-ecules into stacks along the a axis.
authors.affiliation: Chemistry and Chemical Engineering College, Shanxi Datong University, Datong 037008, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Jin-Min
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Li