Structure
As prepared by Wilkinson and coworkers in 1965, and later studied by Skapski and Smart in 1970 by single crystal X-ray diffraction, palladium(II) acetate is a red-brown solid that crystallizes as monoclinic plates. Its structure was determined to be trimeric, consisting of an equilateral triangle of Pd atoms each pair of which is bridged with two acetate groups in a butterfly conformation. Each metal atom achieves approximate square planar co-ordination.
On the other hand, palladium(II) acetate prepared in a slightly different way was isolated as a pale pink powder, whose structure was determined by X-ray powder diffraction to consist of infinite chains in which the coordination geometry around each Pd is true square planar.
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