Abstract
The title palladium complex, [Pd(C(6)H(3)N(2))(2)(C(18)H(15)P)(2)], was isolated as an impurity that co-eluted with the organic product of a palladium-catalyzed Sonogashira coupling. It crystallizes in the monoclinic space group C2/c with one half of the complex in the asymmetric unit. The palladium atom (site symmetry ) has a square-planar geometry with trans phosphine ligands. The P-Pd-C angle is 95.19 (9)°.