The difluorcarbene complex [Fe
2(CO)
8(
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-CF
2)] (
2) reacts with AsMe
3 under CO substitution to give the
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-CF
2containing complexes [Fe
2(CO)
6(AsMe
3)
2(
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-CF
2)] (
4) and [Fe
2(CO)
5(AsMe
3)
3(
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-CF
2)] (
5) which have an [Fe
2(CO)
9]-like structure as shown by X-ray analyses. In the solid state,
4 forms two isomers,
4a and
4b, in a 3 to 1 ratio,which differ in the position of the
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-CF
2 ligand;
4a has a local
C2 axis and
4b has
C1 symmetry. The Fe-Fedistances in
4 and
5 are 2.47 Å and are the shortest ones found in [Fe
2(CO)
9]-like compounds. Efforts were alsoundertaken to replace one or more CO groups in
2 by other ligands, such as N (bpy, phen, pzy, etc.) or P donors(dppe, dppm). With dppm, only the CF
2 free complex, [Fe
2(CO)
4(
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-Ph
2PCH
2PPh
2)
2(
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-CO)] (
6), could be detectedand characterized by X-ray analysis. Most of the reactions resulted in the formation of red-brown materials whichwere insoluble in the usual solvents and which could not be characterized. The use of CH
2Cl
2 during the attemptsto crystallize a product from the reaction of
2 and phen gave [Fe(phen)
3]Cl
2 (
7) in low yields. For
4 and
5, theelectronic structures were analyzed using the atoms in molecules (AIM) theory. No electron density was foundbetween the two iron atoms, and the short contacts can be interpreted in terms of a
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-interaction.