Crystal structure of {N-[(6-bromo-pyridin-2-yl)(phen-yl)methyl-idene]-2,6-di-methyl-aniline-κ2N,N'}di-chlorido-zinc di-chloro-methane hemisolvate.

The solvated title compound, [ZnCl2(C20H17BrN2)]·0.5CH2Cl2, comprises a bidentate imino-pyridine ligand and two Cl atoms bound to a zinc2+ cation in a distorted tetra-hedral arrangement. The chelate bond lengths are consistent with localized C=N double bonds and a C-C single bond, as expected for an unreduced ligand bound to a closed-shell transition metal cation. Apart from weak nonclassical C-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds between the complex mol-ecules and the disordered solvent mol-ecules (occupancy = 0.5), no further significant inter-molecular inter-actions are observed.