“…As an extension of these studies, we have synthesized and determined the crystal structures of a number of cis-coordinated palladium complexes with aromatic ligands including Pd(bpy)(cbdca) and Pb(phen)(cbdca) , Pd(phen)(ca) (Okabe et al, 2003), Pd(bpy)(nad) and Pd(biq)(nad) (Okabe et al, 2004) and Pd(bpy)(ca) (Okabe et al, 2005), where bpy is 2,2 0 -bipyridine, cbdca is 1,1-cyclobutanedicarboxylate, phen is 1,10-phenanthroline, nad is 2,3naphthalenediolate, biq is biquinoline and ca is catecholate or 1,2-benzenediolate.…”