Treatment of 5-phenyl-2,8-bis(2-pyridinyl)anthyridine (L) with (PPh 3 ) 2 PdCl 2 or (dppe)PdCl 2 in the presence of a silver salt resulted in the formation of [trans-(PPh 3 ) 2 PdLCl](BF 4 ) (1a), [trans-(PPh 3 ) 2 PdL(MeCN)]-(BF 4 ) 2 (1b), [trans-(PPh 3 ) 2 PdLCl](PF 6 ) (1c) ,or [cis-(dppe)PdLCl](BF 4 ) (4), respectively. The ligand L in these complexes acts as a monodentate ligand with N (10) of anthyridine binding to the metal center. In the presence of PPh 3 , dinuclear complexes [Pd 2 L(CH 3 CN) 2 Cl 2 ](BF 4 ) 2 (2) and [Pd 2 L(CH 3 CN) 4 ]-(BF 4 ) 4 (3) readily underwent dechelation to yield 1a,b, respectively, whereas the reaction of 2 with dppe gave 4. On the other hand, treatment of 1a and 4 with S 8 in the presence of a sufficient amount of palladium ions provided the corresponding dinuclear complex 2. Furthermore, this kind of substitution is also applicable with the Pd-Me complex [Pd 2 L(CH 3 CN) 2 Me 2 ](BF 4 ) 2 ( 5), which could be prepared from complexation of L with 2 equiv of [(COD)Pd(CH 3 CN)Me](BF 4 ). Thus, [trans-(PPh 3 ) 2 PdLMe](BF 4 ) (7) was obtained by the reaction of 5 with PPh 3 . However, the reaction of PPh 3 with [Pd 2 L(CH 3 CN) 2 (MeCO) 2 ](BF 4 ) 2 (6), a CO insertion product of 5, gave a messy result. The catalytic activity of these complexes in the Suzuki−Miyaura coupling of aryl halide with arylboronic acid under a CO atmosphere was investigated. Crystal structures of 1c, 4, 5, and 7 are reported to confirm their structural details. This work demonstrates the novelty of L as a hypodentate ligand toward palladium ions.