Dichlorido{N,N-dimethyl-N′-[1-(2-pyrid­yl)ethyl­idene]ethane-1,2-diamine-κ(3) N,N′,N′′}zinc

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [ZnCl(2)(C(11)H(17)N(3))], contains two independent penta­coordinate Zn(II) complex mol­ecules. In each mol­ecule, the metal atom is coordinated by an N,N′,N′′-tridenate Schiff base and two Cl atoms in a distorted square-pyramidal geometry. The two mol­ecules differ little in their geometry, but more in their inter­molecular inter­actions. In the crystal, adjacent mol­ecules are connected via C—H⋯Cl inter­actions into a three-dimensional supra­molecular structure. The network is supplemented by π–π inter­actions formed between the aromatic rings of pairs of the symmetry-related mol­ecules [centroid–centroid distances = 3.6255 (10) and 3.7073 (10) Å]. The crystal lattice contains void spaces with a size of 52 Å(3).