“…Although cyanamide anions (NCN 2À and NCNH À ) are among such molecules to be expected to work as unique bridging ligands for the construction of polynuclear systems owing to their soft, sterically small, and potentially polydentate nature, transition metal complexes with or NCNHbridges [3] have poorly been explored. Recently we have shown that the diiridium(III) complex [Cp * IrCl 2 ] 2 (1a, Cp * = g 5 -C 5 Me 5 ) reacts with NaNCNH or Na 2 NCN to afford the 16-membered macrocyclic NCNH-bridged tetrairidium complex [Cp * IrCl(l 2 -NCNH-N,N 0 )] 4 (2a) or the NCN-bridged diiridium complex [Cp * Ir(l 2 -NCN-N,N)] 2 (3), respectively, which can further be converted into the C 3 -elongated cubane-like NCN-bridged tetrairidium complex [Cp * Ir(l 3 -NCN-N,N,N 0 ) 3 (IrCp * ) 3 (l 3 -NCN-N,N,N)] (4a), the regular cubane-type NCN-bridged tetrairidium complex [Cp * Ir(l 3 -NCN-N,N,N)] 4 (5) and the heterotrinuclear complexes [(Cp * Ir) 2 (ML)(l 3 -NCN-N,N,N) 2 ] + (ML = RuCp, Rh(cod), Pd(g 3 -C 3 H 5 ); Cp = g 5 -C 5 H 5 ; cod = cycloocta-1,5-diene) (Scheme 1) [4]. In this study, we have synthesized cobalt and rhodium analogues of the 16-membered macrocyclic and C 3 -elongated cubane-like complexes, …”