TY - JOUR A1 - Blasberg, Florian A1 - Bats, Jan W. A1 - Wagner, Matthias A1 - Lerner, Hans-Wolfram T1 - (Aceto­nitrile-κN)chloridobis[2-(pyridin-2-yl)phenyl-κ2C1,N]iridium(III) T2 - Acta crystallographica / Section E, Structure reports online N2 - The IrIII atom of the title compound, [Ir(C11H8N)2Cl(CH3CN)], displays a distorted octa­hedral coordination. The pyridyl groups are in trans positions [N—Ir—N = 173.07 (10)°], while the phenyl groups are trans with respect to the acetonitrile and chloride groups [C—Ir—N = 178.13 (11) and C—Ir—Cl = 176.22 (9)°]. The pyridyl­phenyl groups only show a small deviation from planarity, with the dihedral angle between the planes of the two six-membered rings in each pyridyl­phenyl group being 5.6 (2) and 5.8 (1)°. The crystal packing shows inter­molecular C—H[cdots, three dots, centered]Cl, C—H[cdots, three dots, centered]π(acetonitrile) and C—H[cdots, three dots, centered]π(pyridyl­phen­yl) contacts. Y1 - 2011 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/26337 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-263375 SN - 1600-5368 N1 - This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are cited. VL - 67 IS - m1837-m1838 PB - Munksgaard CY - Copenhagen ER -