Novel visible light induced reductive elimination of a heterodinuclear triorganoplatinum-manganese complex, ( t Bu 2 bpy)Me 2 PhPt-Mn(CO) 5 , gives a methylmanganese complex, MnMe(CO) 5 , and a methylphenylplatinum complex, PtMePh( t Bu 2 bpy).Use of light energy in controlling the selectivity and activity of chemical reactions is a highly fascinating method, but it is in generally very difficult, since irradiation frequently causes homolytic bond cleavage, dissociation of ligands, etc. or sometimes even luminescence. 1,2 On the other hand, reductive elimination is one of the most important key steps in organotransition-metal chemistry in relation to transition-metalmediated organic reactions and catalyses. 3 Among them, C-C bond forming reductive elimination is the most well studied both experimentally 4 and theoretically. 5 Other reductive elimination processes involving hetero elements are also intrinsically of importance in various catalyses promoted by transition-metal complexes. 6 We previously reported the reversible alkyl group transfer reaction of heterodinuclear organotransition-metal complexes, 7 which is regarded as reductive elimination of an organotransition-metal complex from the dinuclear complex. We wish to report here novel visible light enhanced reductive elimination of a methylmanganese complex under ambient conditions from heterodinuclear triorganoplatinum-manganese complexes.A series of (2,2 0 -bipyridine)-or (4,4 0 -di-tert-butyl-2,2 0 -bipyridine)triorganoplatinum-manganese pentacarbonyl complexes were prepared by the simple metathetical reactions of the corresponding triorgano(nitrato)platinum(IV) species with sodium pentacarbonylmanganate in THF (eq 1).In these heterodinuclear complexes, a large R 2 group is always placed trans to Mn, probably due to steric hindrance between the square-planar Pt coordination plane and the four equatorial carbonyl ligands at Mn. 1a in THF shows two absorption bands at 533 (ε = 2900 M -1 cm -1 ) and 325 nm (ε = 15 000 M -1 cm -1 ), which are ascribed to MLCT bands from the HOMO orbital based on the Pt-Mn bond to the LUMO assignable to two empty π* orbitals of the bpy ligand. 8 Nakagawa, H.; Akita, M.; Inoue, K.; Sakai, M.; Fujii, M. Dalton Trans. 2008, 6709-6723 and references therein. (3) (a) Collman, J. P.; Hegedus, L. S.; Norton, J. R.; Finke, R. G. Laio, A.; Mohamed, F.; Krack, M.; Parrinello, M.; Milet, A. Organometallics 2007, 26, 1241-1249. (h) P erez-Rodrı´guez, M.; Braga, A. A. C.; Garcia-Melchor, M.; P erez-Temprano, M. H.; Casares, J. A.; Ujaque, G.; de Lera, A. R.; Alvarez, R.; Maseras, F.; Espinet, P. DFT calculations of 1a and 1c and their corresponding products,which were performed by using Spartan 06 Windows from Wavefunction, Inc. at the B3LYP/LACVP/6-31G* level of theory, reveal that reductive elimination of the former is endothermic but that of the latter is exothermic. The calculated wavelengths of two MLCT bands of 1a were 554 and 400 nm. See the Supporting Information.