“…As part of our ongoing interest in bimetallic complexes featuring 1,8-naphthyridine ligand motifs, 9,10,12,22,23 we have been investigating avenues to diversify the compatible precursors to expand the range of the accessible bimetallic products. Inspired, in part, by our previous formation of a Ni-Ni bond upon reduction with KC 8 , 12 we sought to expand the reduction approach 21 to develop a more generalisable method to access bimetallic complexes with close metal-metal interactions.…”