Dedicated to Professor Alan H. Cowley on the occasion of his 70th birthdayConsiderable attention has been focused on the investigations of their structure and mode of catalytic activity of alumoxanes since the discovery of methylalumoxane (MAO) as a highly active cocatalyst in ethylene and propylene polymerization by group 4 metallocenes in 1980.[1] The role of MAO seems clear, [2] but the molecular structure of the active alumoxane species remains an open question. In the course of numerous investigations of the controlled hydrolysis of aluminum compounds, some alumoxanes have been isolated and structurally characterized by introducing bulky alkyl or aryl groups in place of methyl groups, [3] but none of them perform as well as MAO in the metallocene mediated olefin polymerization. Although three coordinate aluminum sites are present in the compounds in which oligomerization is sterically hindered by bulky ligands, [4] alumoxanes containing terminal hydroxide are very rare.Recently we demonstrated that the liquid ammonia/ toluene two phase system is highly effective for the hydrolysis and ammonolysis of transition metal compounds. The organozirconium oxide and hydroxide clusters [{(EtMe 4 C 5 )Zr} 6 -(m 6 -O)(m 3 -O) 8 ]·(C 7 H 8 ), [5] [(Cp*Zr) 6 (m 4 -O)(m-O) 4 (m-OH) 8 ] ·2(C 7 H 8 ), [6] and related systems [7] were prepared by the hydrolysis and ammonolysis of metal chlorides in a liquid ammonia/toluene two-phase system at low temperatures. More recently, the first hydrolysis by a main-group metal halide in a two phase system led to an unprecedented congener of boronic acid LAl(OH) 2 (1; L = HC[(CMe)(2,6-iPr 2 C 6 H 3 N)] 2 ).[8] Herein we report on the synthesis of the first dinuclear alumoxane that contains a terminal hydroxide and a six-membered alumoxane with a three coordinate Al center and two coordinate O atoms.The reaction of LAlI 2 (2) with KOH that contained 10-15 % H 2 O (1.0:0.71 molar ratio of pure KOH) and KH (1.0:1.4 molar ratio) in liquid ammonia and toluene at À78 8C results in the complete removal of iodide and the formation of