Abstract. Mr=654.8, triclinic, P1, a= 11.236 (2), b= 11.774 (2), c= 14.682 (2) A,, ct= 74.01 (2), fl= 86.92 (2), 7= 75.59 (2) ° , V= 1808/~3, Z=2, D x = 1.203 Mg m -3, 2(Mo Kct) = 0.71069/k, fl = 0.611mm -1, F(000) = 692, T= 293 K. Final R = 0.031 for 6282 unique observed X-ray diffractometer data. The nine-membered metaUacycle contains a slightly distorted square-planar Pd atom coordinated by two phosphine ligands. The four cyclopropane rings impose steric rigidity on the ring, whose conformation resembles the all-cis boat conformation of 1,3,5,7-cyclononatetraene rather than the twisted-boat-chair and twisted-chair-boat forms calculated for cyclononane. There are no short intermolecular distances.