Rhenium(I) and Technetium(I) Tricarbonyl Complexes with Phosphoraneimines

[NEt₄]₂[Re(CO)₃Br₃] and [NEt₄]₂[Tc(CO)₃Cl₃] react with trimethylsilyltriphenylphosphoraneimine, Me₃SiNPPh₃, under exchange of the bromo ligands and the formation of cationic [M(CO)₃(HNPPh₃)₃]⁺ complexes (M = Re, Tc). The required protons are abstracted from the solvent CH₂Cl₂. The steric bulk of the organic ligands causes a marked distortion of the established coordination polyhedra from an idealized octahedron with bond angles between neighbouring donor atoms between 81.81(8)° and 96.66(8)°. The reaction of [NEt₄]₂[Re(CO)₃Br₃] with Me₃SiNP(Ph₂)CH₂PPh₂ in CH₂Cl₂ yields the neutral complex [Re(CO)₃Br{HNP(Ph₂)CH₂PPh₂)], which contains a neutral, chelate‐bonded (diphenylphosphinomethyl)diphenylphosphoraneimine ligand. A similar reaction with the bifunctional phosphoraneimine Me₃SiNP(Ph₂)CH₂(Ph₂)PNSiMe₃ gives only small amounts of a binuclear rhenium(I) complex of the composition [{Re(CO)₃Br₂}₂(HNP(Ph₂)CH₂(Ph₂)PNH)]^2‐, whereas the major amount of the bis‐phosphoraneimine undergoes an intramolecular rearrangement to yield [H₂NP(Ph₂)NP(Ph₂)CH₃]Br. An X‐ray structure analysis shows a widespread delocalization of electron density over the central part of the cation.