Dichloridobis(2-phenyl­pyridine-κN)zinc(II)

In the title compound, [ZnCl(2)(C(11)H(9)N)(2)], the Zn(2+) cation lies on a twofold axis and is coordinated by two Cl(−) anions and the N atoms of two 2-phenyl­pyridine ligands, forming a ZnN(2)Cl(2) polyhedron with a slightly distorted tetra­hedral coordination geometry. The dihedral angle between the phenyl ring and the metal-bound pyridine ring is 50.3 (4)° for each 2-phenyl­pyridine ligand. This arranges the phenyl ring from one ligand in the complex above the pyridine ring of the other resulting in an intra­molecular π–π inter­action, with a centroid–centroid distance of 3.6796 (17) Å. Weak C—H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds stabilize the crystal packing, linking mol­ecules into chains along the c axis.