“…The PdeCl bond trans to the aryl group is longer than the one trans to the phosphine ligand, and is consistent with the aryl group exerting greater trans influence than the phosphine ligand. These distances are in accord with the binuclear organopalladium complexes [19,26,31]. The PdeC distances (2.00 Å) are significantly shorter than the binuclear chloro-bridged methylpalladium complexes, [Pd 2 Me 2 (m-Cl) 2 (L) 2 ] (L ¼ PR 3 , AsPr i 3 ) (2.029e2.100 Å) [14,26,29e31] but are comparable to halo-bridged complexes, [Pd 2 Ph 2 (m-I) 2 (PPh 3 ) 2 ] (Pd-C ¼ 1.993(1)Å) [22] and [Pd 2 (C 6 H 4 Bu np) 2 (m-Br) 2 (P-o-tol 3 ) 2 ] (Pd-C ¼ 2.02(1)Å) [23].…”