cis-Dibromidobis(2-phenyl-pyridine-κN)platinum(II).

In the title complex, [PtBr(2)(C(11)H(9)N)(2)], the Pt(II) ion has a distorted cis-Br(2)N(2) square-planar coordination geometry defined by two N atoms from two 2-phenyl-pyridine (ppy) ligands and two Br(-) anions. The ppy ligands are not planar, the dihedral angles between the pyridine and benzene rings being 49.0 (3) and 47.3 (3)°. In the crystal, the complex mol-ecules are stacked in columns along the a axis. In the columns, there are numerous intra- and inter-molecular π-π inter-actions between the six-membered rings, the shortest ring centroid-centroid distance being 3.774 (6) Å.