PalladiumII Complexes of the (N,C,N)SnCl Stannylene

The reactions of heteroleptic stannylene (N,C,N)SnCl (1), where N,C,N is an abbreviation for N,C,N-chelate 2,6-(Me2NCH2)2C6H3, with selected palladium complexes resulted in new SnII−PdII complexes in which 1 itself acts as a 2e-donor ligand, resulting in a Cl−PdII−SnII−Cl structural motif, instead of a PdII−SnII−Cl2, which would be expected in the case of insertion of 1 into a PdII−Cl bond.