The formation of carbon-carbon bonds mediated by metal surfaces and nanoparticles continues to attract considerable attention. [1, 2] Recent work on the interaction of allyl halides (C 3 H 5 X) with a range of metal surfaces revealed different reactivity that depends on both the metal as well as the halide. [3, 4] Of all the metal surfaces examined, silver surfaces appear to be the most effective at mediating carbon-carbon bond coupling of allyl halides to give 1,5-hexadiene. Two distinct pathways have been observed:[4a] 1) dissociative adsorption of C 3 H 5 X to give surface-bound allyl groups, which then undergo coupling, and 2) a coupling reaction between C 3 H 5 X and a surface-bound allyl group. Surface defects play a significant role in the selectivity of 1,5-hexadiene formation which increases from 20 % to greater than 60 % when chlorine atoms are preadsorbed on silver surfaces.[4b] Also of interest are the largely forgotten results of Tamura and Kochi, [5] who synthesized silver nanoparticles over 30 years ago and showed that they reacted with allyl bromide to give 1,5-hexadiene and silver bromide [Eq. (1)]. Here we describe the gas-phase assembly of the subvalent silver hydride cluster [Ag 4 H] + [6] and its subsequent ionmolecule reactions with allyl bromide.[Ag 4 H] + was "synthesized" in the gas phase by collisioninduced dissociation (CID) of a silver-amino acid precursor in a quadrupole ion trap (QIT) mass spectrometer.[7] The precursor was the silver ion cluster [(M + Ag-H) 3 + Ag] + (M = N,N-dimethylglycine), which was formed through electrospray ionization (ESI) of a mixture of silver nitrate (AgNO 3 ) and the amino acid.[ clusters (M = glycine or N,N-dimethylglycine). These reactions represent the first gas-phase assembly of silver clusters mediated by simple biomolecules. [9, 10] Interestingly, the anionic amino acid ligands act as the reductants; this is in contrast to the condensed-phase assembly of silver clusters and nanoparticles on biomolecular templates which requires the addition of reductants.[11]The ion-molecule reactions of these silver clusters with the allyl halides, CH 2 =CHCH 2 X (X = Cl, Br, and I) were examined. [12, 13] [Ag 4 H] + (m/z = 433) [14] exhibits the highest selectivity for CÀC bond coupling with allyl bromide, CH 2 = CHCH 2 Br (Figure 1 (m/z = 189) [14] in combination with the neutral cluster [Ag 3 Br 3 ][15] (Figure 1 c, Equation (4)). Overall, these equations combine to give a rare example of a metal-mediated CÀ C bond-coupling reaction [Eq. (5)] in the gas phase. [16] Additional CID studies and DFT (density functional theory) calculations [17] were carried out to gain further support that CÀC bond coupling had occurred. CID of [Ag(C 3