Dichlorido(1,10-phenanthroline-κ(2) N,N′)palladium(II)

In the title complex, [PdCl(2)(C(12)H(8)N(2))], the Pd(2+) ion is four-coordinated in a slightly distorted square-planar environment by two N atoms of the chelating 1,10-phenanthroline ligand and two chloride ions. The nearly planar mol­ecules, with a maximum deviation of 0.120 (3) Å from the least-squares plane, are stacked in columns along the c axis with a Pd⋯Pd distance of 4.8340 (9) Å. In the column, π–π inter­actions between adjacent six-membered rings are present, the shortest centroid–centroid distance being 3.680 (4) Å. A weak C—H⋯Cl inter­action is observed between the columns.