“…An alternative concept for the stabilization of, for instance, reactive heavy carbene analogues is the use of intramolecularly coordinating "built-in" ligands. Prominent representatives of these are N,C,N-and O,C,O-coordinating pincer-type ligands, which have been employed for the synthesis of heteroleptic stannylenes such as {2,6-(Me 2 NCH 2 ) 2 C 6 H 3 }SnCl, [29] [2,6-{P(O)(OR) 2 } 2 -4-tBu-C 6 H 2 ]SnCl (R = Et, iPr), [30,31] and {2,6-(ROCH 2 ) 2 C 6 H 3 }SnCl (R = Me, tBu). [32] From systematic studies on the reactivity of these compounds and their transition-metal complexes, we report here the synthesis of the organotin(I) species [{2,6-(Me 2 NCH 2 ) 2 C 6 H 3 }Sn] 2 and discuss, on the basis of singlecrystal X-ray diffraction analysis and MO calculations, the influence of intramolecular N!Sn coordination on the SnÀ Sn bond.…”