(S)-α-Benzyl­prolinium cis-[(S)-α-benzyl­prolinato]dichloridopalladium(II)

The title complex salt, (C(12)H(16)NO(2))[PdCl(2)(C(12)H(14)NO(2))], is of inter­est with respect to organic and organometallic catalysis. The compound crystallizes as very small orange–red irregular prisms and the asymmetric unit contains three crystallographically distinct cation–anion pairs. The coordination geometry about the palladium atoms is square-planar with the chloride ligands cis to one another. The structure displays N—H⋯Cl and O—H⋯O hydrogen bonding such that the N—H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds align the cation–anion pairs in a linear fashion along [001], with the O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds connecting these linear strands along [100] and [010].