[μ-1,3-Dioxo-1,3-bis(pyridin-2-yl)propane-2,2-diido-κN,C:κC,N']bis[(1,3-diphenylpropane-1,3-dionato-κO,O')palladium(II)](Pd-Pd)

The title compound, [Pd(2)(C(13)H(8)N(2)O(2))(C(15)H(11)O(2))(2)], crystallized from a mixture of ethanol and n-hexa-nes. The structure is the first example of β-diketonate in a dianionic κ(2)C-coordination complex containing a Pd(II)-Pd(II) bond. Both Pd(II) atoms adopt a pseudo square-planar coordination geometry. The mol-ecular packing involves π-inter-actions between the phenyl rings of the 1,3-diphenyl-propane-1,3-dionato ligands with centroid-centroid distances in the range 3.823 (2)-3.868 (2) Å.