Positional disorder manifested as compositional in a pseudo‐C2‐symmetrical Pd complex

The title compound {2‐3,5‐bis(trifluoromethyl)‐1H‐pyrazol‐1‐ylmethyl]‐6‐(3,5‐dimethyl‐1H‐pyrazol‐1‐ylmethyl)pyridine}methylpalladium(II) tetrakis3,5‐bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]borate, Pd(C₁₈H₁₈F₆N₅)]B(C₈H₃F₆)₄], crystallizes as discrete cations and anions. The cation possesses a pseudo‐twofold axis about which positional disorder of the tridentate ligand is exhibited. The four substituents on the two pyrazole rings exhibit CH₃/CF₃ disorder, while all other atoms are ordered. Thus, this disorder can be conveniently described `locally' as compositional, while `globally' for the entire tridentate ligand it is positional. The anion also exhibits typical rotational positional disorder in three of the CF₃ groups. All disordered CF₃ groups were modeled with idealized C_3v geometry.