Structure of a diorganotelluroxonium(IV) cation, {[2,6-(CH(2)NMe(2))(2)C(6)H(3)Te(μ-O)](2)}(2+), with the tri-chlorido-(dimethyl sulfoxide)-platinum(II) anion.

In the title salt, di-μ-oxido-bis-{2,6-bis-[(di-methyl-amino)-meth-yl]phenyl-κC (1)}tellurium(-IV) bis[tri-chlorido-(dimethyl sulfoxide-κS)platinate(II)], (C(24)H(38)N(4)O(2)Te(2))[PdCl(3)(C(2)H(6)OS)](2), which crystallizes in the triclinic space group P , each Te atom is in a distorted five-coordinated TeO(2)N(2)C square-pyramidal geometry (τ values of 0.026 and 0.001) with the C atoms of the phenyl rings occupying the apical positions. The phenyl rings in the [C(24)H(38)N(4)O(2)Te(2)](2+) cation are in a cis arrangement to enable this species to participate in Te⋯Cl cation-anion inter-actions. There are also C-H⋯O inter-actions involving the dimethyl sulfoxide ligands and numerous cation-anion and anion-anion C-H⋯Cl inter-actions, which link the ions into a complex three-dimensional array.