%0 Journal Article %T A new monoclinic polymorph of trans-dichloridodipyridinepalladium(II) %A Hon Man Lee %A Chuang-Yi Liao %J Acta Crystallographica Section E %D 2008 %I International Union of Crystallography %R 10.1107/s1600536808033552 %X In the structure of the title compound, [PdCl2(C5H5N)2], the PdII atom is located on an inversion centre and the pyridine rings are coplanar. There is intermolecular ¦Ð¨C¦Ð stacking between the pyridyl rings, with a centroid-to-centroid separation of 3.916 (1) . The structure is a new polymorph of two previously determined structures [Viossat, Dung & Robert (1993). Acta Cryst. C49, 84¨C85; Liao & Lee (2006). Acta Cryst. E62, m680¨Cm681]. %U http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S1600536808033552