The bicyclic phosphorus compound 2,3,4,6-Tetra-ter/-butylbicyclo[3.1.Ojhexaphosphane í-Bu 4 P 6 , C 16 H 36 P 6 crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P2Jn with a = 912.0pm, 6= 1383.8pm, c= 1951.4pm, β = 90.93° and Ζ = 4 formula units. The crystal structure has been worked out by single crystal X-ray methods and refined to R = 0.045 with 860 observed reflections.The molecule consists of a three-membered phosphorus ring connected to a five-membered ring by a common edge. The bicyclus has a chair-like phosphorus skeleton. The slightly distorted three-membered ring stands almost perpendicular to the five-membered ring. The latter adopts the conformation of an unusually flat, only slightly twisted envelope. The common edge with d (Ρ-P) = 219.7 pm and the average endocyclic bonding distance ¿(P -P) = 219.9 pm in the five-membered ring are almost equal, but different from the average endocyclic bonding distance (P-P) = 218.3 pm in the three-membered ring. The arrangement of the substituents tert-butyl is all-trans. The average bond lengths rf(P-C) = 190.4 pm and d(C -C) = 152.4 pm are as expected.