[2-(3,5-Dimethyl-1H-pyrazol-1-yl-κN)-1,10-phenanthroline-κN,N']bis-(thio-cyanato-κN)cadmium(II).

In the title complex, [Cd(NCS)(2)(C(17)H(14)N(4))], the Cd(II) ion is in a distorted trigonal-bipyramidal CdN(5) coordination geometry. In the crystal structure, there is a π-π stacking inter-action involving a pyrazole ring and a symmetry-related pyridine ring with a centroid-centroid distance of 3.578†(3)†à .