data reports IUCrData (2016). 1, x160521 http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S2414314616005216 1 of 3 Bis[S-hexyl (E)-3-(4-methoxybenzylidene)dithio- carbazato-j 2 N 3 ,S]palladium(II) E. Zangrando, a M. S. Begum, b M. B. H. Howlader, c M. C. Sheikh d and R. Miyatake e * a Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, via Giorgieri 1, 34127, Trieste, Italy, b Department of Chemistry, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh, c Department of Chemistry, Rajshahi University, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh, d Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, University of Toyama, 3190 Gofuku, Toyama, 930-8555, Japan, and e Center for Environmental Conservation and Research Safety, University of Toyama, 3190 Gofuku, Toyama, 930-8555, Japan. *Correspondence e-mail: miyatake@ctg.u-toyama.ac.jp In the title complex, [Pd(C 15 H 21 N 2 OS 2 ) 2 ], the Pd II ion is located on a crystallographic inversion center. The two Schiff base ligands in a deprotonated imino thiolate form chelate the metal atom via the azomithine N and thiolate S atoms in a trans-square-planar configuration as imposed by the crystal symmetry. The complex has an approximately planar geometry with the exception of the hexyl chains; the mean plane of the five-membered chelate ring makes a dihedral angle of 15.43 (5)  with the benzene ring. In the crystal, the complex molecules are stacked along the a axis. Structure description The molecular structure of the title compound is illustrated in Fig. 1. In the complex, the Pd—S and Pd—N bond lengths are 2.2949 (5) and 2.0358 (14) A ˚ , respectively, with the S1—Pd1—N1 chelating angle of 83.13 (5)  . These values are in agreement with those observed in similar bis(dithiocarbazato)Pd II complexes, either with a trans configuration of ligands (Khaledi & Mohd Ali, 2011; Tampouris et al. , 2007; Tarafder et al., 2010) or with a cis configuration (Begum, Howlader, Sheikh et al., 2015; Ali et al., 2002; Liu et al., 2011; Duan et al., 1998; Tampouris et al. , 2007). The ligand recently reported (Begum, Howlader, Miyatake et al. , 2015) rotates about the C9—N2 bond by 180  in order to allow the N,S chelating behavior towards the metal. Upon coordination some salient features are observed, compared to the free ligand The most significant one is an elongation of the C9—S1 bond length; the C9—S1 distance of 1.7311 (17) A ˚ in the present PdL 2 complex is longer than that of 1.6713 (19) A ˚ in the ligand HL, validating the coordination with the deprotonated thiolate S atom. Correspondingly, the present N2—C9 and N1—N2 bond Received 1 March 2016 Accepted 28 March 2016 Edited by H. Ishida, Okayama University, Japan Keywords: crystal structure; palladium(II) complex; trans-ligand configuration. CCDC reference: 1403856 Structural data: full structural data are available from iucrdata.iucr.org ISSN 2414-3146