The structure of [Ph 3 PNPPh 3 ][(MeSO 2 ) 2 N] (monoclinic, P2 1 /c, Z = 1; single-crystal X-ray diffraction at −140 • C) displays chains of relatively small anions, surrounded by four parallel columns of bulky cations, giving a rectangular array. In contrast to a previously reported series of onium dimesylamides with smaller cations, interanion hydrogen bonding C Me -H··· O, originating from the inductively activated methyl groups, is not observed in the present structure. In consequence, the packing arrangement is determined by multiple phenyl embraces between cations, weak cation-anion hydrogen bonds C Ph -H···O/N and, most notably, by methyl-phenyl CH/π interactions between anions and cations. One methyl group forms two C-H···π contacts to different phenyl rings (hydrogen-to-centroid distances: 272 and 285 pm), the other lies in a tripodal mode above an aromatic ring plane (hydrogen-to-centroid distances: ca. 330 pm).