Dibromido(1,10-phenanthroline-κN,N')palladium(II).

In the title complex, [PdBr(2)(C(12)H(8)N(2))], the Pd(II) ion is four-coordinated in a slightly distorted square-planar environment by two N atoms of the chelating 1,10-phenanthroline ligand and two bromide ions. The complex displays numerous inter-molecular π-π inter-actions between adjacent six-membered rings, the shortest centroid-centroid distance being 3.680 (4) Å. The nearly planar [maximum deviation 0.143 (2) Å] mol-ecules stack in columns parallel to (101) with a Pd⋯Pd distance of 4.8466 (9) Å.