Diiodido(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′)platinum(II)

In the title complex, [PtI2(C12H8N2)], the Pt2+ ion is four-coordinated in a slightly distorted square-planar environment by two N atoms of the chelating 1,10-phenanthroline ligand and two iodide ions. The nearly planar molecules, with a maximum deviation of 0.170 (3) Å from the least-squares plane, are stacked in columns along the c axis with a Pt...Pt distance of 4.8510 (6) Å. In the column, π–π interactions between adjacent six-membered rings are present, the shortest centroid–centroid distance being 3.703 (5) Å