title: Di-μ-chlorido-bis-{[2-(di-tert-butyl-phosphan-yl)biphenyl-3-yl-κ(2)C(3),P]palladium(II)} dichloro-methane disolvate.
abstract: The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Pd(2)Cl(2)(C(20)H(26)P)(2)]·2CH(2)Cl(2), contains one half-mol-ecule of the palladium complex and a dichloro-methane solvent mol-ecule. In the complex, two Pd(II) atoms are bridged by two Cl atoms, with the other two coordination sites occupied by a C atom of the biphenyl system and a P atom, resulting in a distorted square-planar coordination geometry of the Pd(II) atom and a cyclo-metallated four-membered ring. The Pd(2)Cl(2) unit is located about an inversion center. The planes of the rings of the biphenyl system make a dihedral angle of 66.36 (11)°.
authors: Research Centre for Synthesis and Catalysis, Department of Chemistry, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park Kingsway Campus, PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006,  South Africa.
authors: Cedric W
authors: CW
authors: Holzapfel
authors: Bernard
authors: B
authors: Omondi