In these reactions, an HCl elimination occurs and M N bonds (M = Si, Al) form directly between a bis(anilino)phosphine oxide ligand with aluminum and silicon halides. The reactions do not require any base to deprotonate the phosphazane ligand. The final products have been fully characterized by means of elemental analysis and IR, MS, and multinuclear NMR ( 1 H, 13 C, 31 P, 27 Al, and 29 Si) spectroscopy. Keywords 27 Al NMR; aluminum halides; bis(anilino)phosphine oxide; phosph(V)azane derivatives; silicon halidesPhosphazanes that contain phosph(III)azanes and phosph(V)azanes have attracted by far the most attention because they offer different coordination modes involving the "hard"(N) in phosph(V)azanes and the "soft"(P) centers in phosph(III)azanes for a generation of chelation complexes containing different metals with a main group and transition metals. 1−11 Our studies, including the investigation of synthesis and the coordination chemistry of some acyclic phosph(V)azanes, led us to study the novel ligand bis(anilino)phosphine oxide, (PhNH) 2 P(O)H (1). 12 This ligand has been synthesized about 20 years ago, but its coordination chemistry as an amido phosphazane ligand has not been known and had very little attention (Scheme 1). It bears active sites as hard and soft centers