“…[1] Contrary to familiar methods in this field which make use of N-and O-donor-containing ligands, respectively, for connecting different metal centers, our strategy until now has been focused on the use of P nligand complexes as connecting moieties. We have already shown that the tetrahedrane complex [{CpMo(CO) 2 } 2 (m,h 2 -P 2 )] can be used as an efficient building block for the formation of oligomers and polymers [2,3] in the presence of Cu I and Ag I salts and that the pentaphosphaferrocene complexes [Cp x Fe(h 5 -P 5 )] (Cp x = C 5 Me 5 (Cp*), C 5 Me 4 Et) form 1D and 2D polymers [4] as well as spherical fullerene-like aggregates [5,6] upon reaction with Cu I halides. The Florentine groups of Stoppioni and Peruzzini were able to show that [(triphos)M(h 3 -P 3 )] (M = Co, Rh, or Ir; triphos = 1,1,1-tris-(diphenylphosphanylmethyl)ethane) coordinates with Cu I , Ag I , or Au I centers to form monocationic complexes.…”