The terminal alkylborylene complex [(h 5 -C 5 H 5 )(OC) 2 Mn]BtBu] (1) reacts with trimethylphosphine and CO to form a borylene-carbonyl coupling productThis reactivity can be extended to nitrogen-and carbon-based ligands to form similar complexes and IMe, 8). The key intermediates of these reactions were found to be neutral, Lewis base-stabilized borylenes of the form [(h 5 -C 5 H 5 )(OC) 2 Mn]B(tBu)(L)] (L ¼ 4-dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP), 4, 3,5-lutidine, 5 and :C[N(Me)CH] 2 (IMe), 6, which have been isolated and fully characterized. They can be synthesized from simple addition of the base to the parent borylene 1. The coordination of the base to the boron center seems to facilitate a rearrangement of the t-butyl borylene substituent.