The reactions of the hydrido triruthenium complex [Ru 3 (µ-H)(µ 3 -κ 2 -HNNMe 2 )(CO) 9 ] (1; H 2 NNMe 2 ) 1,1-dimethylhydrazine) with conjugated dienes give trinuclear derivatives that contain edge-bridging allyl ligands. The isolated allyl products are [Ru 3 (µ-κ 3 -C 8 H 13 )(µ 3 -κ 2 -HNNMe 2 )(µ-CO) 2 (CO) 6 ] (2) from 1,3cyclooctadiene, [Ru 3 (µ-κ 3 -C 6 H 9 )(µ 3 -κ 2 -HNNMe 2 )(µ-CO) 2 (CO) 6 ] (4) from 1,3-cyclohexadiene, and [Ru 3 (µκ 3 -C 4 H 6 OMe)(µ 3 -κ 2 -HNNMe 2 )(µ-CO) 2 (CO) 6 ] (5) from cis-1-methoxybutadiene. While the cyclic structure of the allyl ligands of 2 and 4 forces these ligands to have an anti-anti arrangement, compound 5 contains an anti-MeO-syn-Me allyl ligand. This synthetic approach, which uses conjugated dienes as precursors to allyl ligands, represents an alternative to the use of alkynes having R-hydrogen atoms as precursors to allyl ligands, especially if the alkyne required to make a particular allyl ligand is unknown or difficult to obtain, as happens for cyclic alkynes. The cyclooctenyl derivative [Ru 3 (µ-κ 2 -C 8 H 13 )(µ 3 -κ 2 -HNNMe 2 )(µ-CO) 2 (CO) 6 ] (3) has also been obtained, as a minor product, from the reaction of 1 with 1,3-cyclooctadiene. A study of the reactivity of compound 2 has been performed. It undergoes protonation at the metal atoms to give the cationic derivative [Ru 3 (µ-H)(µ-κ 3 -C 8 H 13 )(µ 3 -κ 2 -HNNMe 2 )(µ-CO) 2 (CO) 6 ] + , which has an edge-bridging hydrido ligand and has been isolated as the [BF 4 ]salt (6). Hydride addition to compound 2 occurs at the allyl ligand to give uncoordinated cyclooctene. Treatment of 2 with tert-butylisocyanide leads to the CO-substitution derivative [Ru 3 (µ-κ 3 -C 8 H 13 )(µ 3 -κ 2 -HNNMe 2 )( t BuNC)(µ-CO) 2 (CO) 5 ] (7), whereas its reaction with diphenylacetylene affords 1,3-cyclooctadiene and the 1,2-diphenylethenyl derivative [Ru 3 (µ-κ 2 -PhCCHPh)(µ 3 -κ 2 -HNNMe 2 )(µ-CO) 2 (CO) 6 ] (8). Some of these results have been rationalized with the help of DFT calculations.