“…Among the great variety of building blocks able to form XB, there is a specific group of neutral complexes with a general formula [M II (XPy) 2 Y 2 ], where XPy is halogen-mono- or poly-substituted pyridine and Y is halide ligand. In most of cases [ 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 ], there appears: XB between X and Y in a solid state [ 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 ], featuring diverse connectivity patterns [ 32 , 33 , 34 ]; the prominence of these interactions for this class even inspired its “visualization” by experimental charge density determination [ 33 ], which is not common in XB studies. According to the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), such complexes are best represented for M = Cu [ 22 , 24 , 26 , 35 ].…”