| Abstract: | The ligand‐unsupported accommodation of extra metal moieties in a sandwich complex is reported. Although it has been considered that the metal‐capacity of a metal sheet sandwich complex is strictly limited by the size of cyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon ligands, the M?M edge bonds in a metal sheet sandwich complex provide a ligand‐unsupported docking site for extra metal moieties, allowing expansion of metal‐capacity in sandwich complexes. The metal sheet sandwich complex Pd4(μ4‐C8H8)(μ4‐C9H9)]+, in which the ligand‐based metal capacity is full in terms of the usage of all C=C moieties of the smaller carbocyclic ligand C8H8 in coordination, can accommodate extra M0{P(OPh)3}2 (M=Pd, Pt) moieties without coordinative assistance by either the C9H9 or the C8H8 ligand. |
