Crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis of chlorido-(2,6-di-methyl-phenyl isocyanide)[N'-(2,6-di-methyl-phen-yl)-N-(pyridin-2-yl)carbamimido-yl]platinum(II).

In the title compound, [Pt(C(14)H(14)N(3))Cl(C(9)H(9)N)], the platinum atom has a square-planar geometry. In the crystal, dimers with R (2) (2)(8) motifs are formed by pairs of N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds. They are connected to each other through pairs of weak C-H⋯Cl inter-actions, forming a R (2) (2)(16) motif, creating parallel ribbons along the [011] axis. The mol-ecular pairs are also linked by C-H⋯π and by π-π inter-actions, the shortest centroid-centroid distance [3.513†(2)†à ] being observed between pyridyl rings. These weak inter-actions form parallel ribbons along the [010] axis. The resulting three-dimensional network ensures the cohesion of the crystal structure. Hirshfeld two-dimensional fingerprint plots revealed that the most significant inter-actions are H⋯H (58.0%), C⋯H/H⋯C (17.9%), Cl⋯H/H⋯Cl (10.7%), N⋯H/H⋯N (6.9%), C⋯C (2.9%), Pt⋯H/H⋯Pt (2.6%), and N⋯C/C⋯N (1.1%) contacts.