Owing to their unique topologies and abilities to selfassemble into av ariety of extended and aggregated structures, the binary platinum carbonyl clusters [Pt 3 (CO) 6 ] n 2À ("Chini clusters") continue to draw significant interest. Herein, we report the isolation and structural characterization of the trinuclear electron-transfer series [Pt 3 (m-CO) 3 (CNAr Dipp2 ) 3 ] nÀ (n = 0, 1, 2), which represents au nique set of monomeric Pt 3 clusters supported by p-acidic ligands.S pectroscopic,c omputational, and synthetic investigations demonstrate that the highest-occupied molecular orbitals of the mono-and dianionic clusters consist of acombined p*-framework of the CO and CNAr Dipp2 ligands,w ith negligible Pt character.A ccordingly,t his study provides precedent for an ensemble of carbonyl and isocyanide ligands to function in ar edox noninnocent manner.