Chlorido(η 6 - p -cymene)[2-(5-phenyl-4 H -1,2,4-triazol-3-yl-κ N 2 )pyridine-κ N ]ruthenium(II) chloride

In the title compound, [RuCl(C 10 H 14 )(C 13 H 10 N 4 )]Cl, the pyridyltriazole fragment of the bidentate ligand is essentially planar [dihedral angle = 0.8 (1)°], while the phenyl substituent is inclined at 19.4 (1)° to the 1,2,4-triazole ring. In the crystal, the complex cations are packed in sheets with no particularly strong interactions between them. The Cl − anions are bound to the cations by unusually strong N—H...Cl hydrogen bonds.