Di-chlorido-(4-methyl-aniline-κ N )[ N -(4-methyl-phen-yl)-1-(thio-phen-2-yl)methanimine-κ N ]palladium(II).

The structure of a mono-amine Pd II complex, [PdCl 2 (C 7 H 9 N)(C 12 H 11 NS)], which crystallizes in the triclinic space group, P , is reported. The primary geometry around the Pd II atom closely resembles square planar (τ 4 ' = 0.069). In the ( E )-1-(thio-phen-2-yl)- N -( p -tol-yl)methanimine ligand, the phenyl and thio-phene rings are not coplanar, subtending a dihedral angle of 38.5 (1)° because of steric effects. The PdCl 2 N 2 coordination plane is almost perpendicular to the planes of the coordinated o -toluidine and the NC 2 fragment [dihedral angles of 84.7 (1) and 72.50 (4)°, respectively]. The Pd-NH 2 length of 2.040 (2) Å is slightly shorter than the observed mean value for other complexes involving a Pd atom attached to the nitro-gen of an aniline derivative. The mol-ecules display an inter-esting supra-molecular synthon based on reciprocal inter-molecular N-H⋯Cl hydrogen-bonding inter-actions of the p -toluidine amine fragment, which results in centrosymmetric dimeric units. These units are further linked by C-H⋯Cl inter-actions, resulting in chains in the c -axis direction where the mean-planes of the repeating fragment are oriented in the (110) plane.