Bis(μ-1,2-bis­{[2-(2-pyrid­yl)-1H-imidazol-1-yl]meth­yl}benzene)bis­[bis­(thio­cyanato-κN)cadmium(II)]

The asymmetric unit of the binuclear title compound, [Cd(2)(NCS)(4)(C(24)H(20)N(6))(2)], contains one half-mol­ecule, consisting of one Cd(2+) cation, two half 1,2-bis­{[2-(2-pyrid­yl)-1H-imidazol-1-yl]meth­yl}benzene (L) ligands and two SCN(−) anions. The dimeric cyclic mol­ecule is completed by crystallographic inversion symmetry. The Cd(2+) cation is coordinated by two N atoms from two SCN(−) anions and four N atoms from two symmetry-related L ligands, exhibiting a distorted octrahedral coordination. A two-dimensional supra­molecular network stacked parallel to [210] is finally formed by linking these dimers through weak π–π stacking inter­actions between the pyridine rings and benzene rings of adjacent dimers, with a plane-to-plane distance of 3.36 (6) Å and a centroid–centroid distance of 3.67 (2) Å. One of the thio­cyanate S atoms is equally disordered over two positions.