Insertion of transition-metal (TM) complexes into elementhalogen bonds is one of the basic concepts in TM chemistry. The most common examples are found for main-group species such as alkyl [1][2][3] and boryl halides. [4][5][6][7] Here, the insertion proceeds with oxidation of the TM and thus constitutes an oxidative addition (OA) process, which is a crucial step in TM-mediated catalysis. Another possibility, albeit much less common, is the insertion of a main-group metal such as tin into TM-halogen bonds, which does not affect the oxidation state of the TM. [8][9][10][11] In the present work we focus on the combination of these two reaction patterns, that is, the insertion of a TM into a TM-halogen bond; this constitutes a versatile route to heterodinuclear TM complexes containing platinum and a coinage metal.There have been numerous investigations into the bonding properties of homo-and heterodinuclear transition-metal complexes. Among the earliest examples were homodinuclear complexes consisting of d 8 -d 8 as well as d 10 -d 10 systems (type B, Figure 1). [12][13][14][15] However, the combination of plati-num and gold is exclusively found in mixed-valence systems, such as d 8 -d 10 (type A) and d 7 -d 9 ; [16][17][18][19] in contrast, the route presented herein leads to heterodinuclear d 10 -d 10 complexes. In addition, the most striking feature of nearly all known compounds of this type is the chelating ligand forcing the two transition metals to interact. Again this stands in stark contrast to the compounds presented in this work that contain unsupported TM-TM bonds without a bridging ligand.While unsupported bonds are relatively uncommon, [20] a few examples of complexes having d 8 -d 10 interactions should be mentioned (type C). [21] To the best of our knowledge, the only complex featuring an unsupported d 10 -d 10 interaction (type D) between platinum and a coinage-group metal was reported by Sharp et al. in 1998. [22] However, no signs of an insertion reaction were detected at that time.In contrast, in our synthetic approach we use the wellestablished transition-metal Lewis base [(Cy 3 P) 2 Pt] (1) and the gold complex [(Cy 3 P)AuCl] (2). We describe the unprecedented reversible insertion of the Lewis basic platinum fragment into a coinage-metal-halogen bond. The insertion products were investigated by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. In addition, we present a possible mechanism for the insertion reaction supported by density functional calculations.The reaction of the sterically and electronically unsaturated platinum compound [(Cy 3 P) 2 Pt] (1) with an equimolar amount of [(Cy 3 P)AuCl] (2) leads instantly to an equilibrium of the two starting materials with a new complex 3, as indicated by 31 P{ 1 H} NMR spectroscopic data. The resonances of 1 (d = 62.2 ppm), flanked by 195 Pt satellites (J = 4155 Hz), and 2 (d = 53.1 ppm) are accompanied by the resonances of 3 at d = 42.7 ppm (J = 3157 Hz) and d = 38.2 ppm (J = 1295 Hz). The appearance of 195 Pt satellites in bo...