“…The two {Cp(CO) 2 Fe} units are linked by the HMTA ligand through the nitrogen atoms in which the coordination geometry around Fe can be described as distorted octahedral with three sites occupied by a cyclopentadienyl ligand, while the two carbonyls and the HMTA ligand occupy the remaining three sites. The Fe-N bond distances were found to be 2.0817(17) and 2.0858(18) Å, which are comparable to the 2.092(4) Å in [(CO) 4 Fe(DABCO) [30], but longer than the Fe-N bond lengths previously reported for cyclopentadienylirondicarbonyl amine complexes [44,48,50]. The three carbon atoms adjacent to the iron centre form a base with a distorted tetragonal geometry about nitrogen with N-C bonds in the range 1.514 ± 0.010 Å. Valence angles are: Fe-N-C, 111.89 ± 1.51°and C-N-C, 106.94 ± 0.84°.…”