Thermal ring-opening of {[2-bis(trimethylsilyl)methyl-3-phenyl-2H-azaphosphirene-kP]pentacarbonyltungsten(0)} (1) in the presence of various nitriles is investigated, in which toluene and/or the nitriles are used as solvents. In toluene, for example, the 3-(1-piperidino)-substituted 2H-azaphosphirene complex 5 b, 4-(1-piperidino)-5-phenyland 4,5-bis(1-piperidino)-substituted 2H-1,3,2-diazaphosphole complexes 6b,d are obtained if 1-piperidino nitrile (2 b) is employed as trapping reagent. Furthermore, a new three-component reaction is presented, using the 2H-azaphosphirene complex 1 and a mixture of two different nitriles, thus giving access to 4,5-mixed-substituted 2H-1,3,2-diazaphosphole complexes 6 a, b and 6 e ± h.The chemo-and regioselectivity of such reactions is rationalized by [32] cycloadditions of transiently formed C-dialkylamino-substituted nitrilium phosphane ylide complexes 3 b, c to nitriles. Use of two equivalents of dialkyl cyanamides and four equivalents of either ethyl cyanoformate or phenyl glyoxonitrile resulted in dual trapping reactions of complexes 3 b, c, forming 2H-1,3,2-diazaphosphole complexes 6 i ± k and D 3 -1,3,2-oxazaphospholene complexes 8 a ± g. Reaction of the 2H-azaphosphirene complex 1 with ethyl cyanoformate in toluene gave exclusively the 4,5-bis-(ethoxycarbonyl)-2H-1,3,2-diazaphosphole complex 6 l; even in benzonitrile, the mixed-substituted 2H-1,3,2-diazaphosphole complex 6 m is formed only as a by-product. The first 2H-1,4,2-diazaphosphole complex 9 was synthesized along with the regioisomeric 2H-1,3,2-diazaphosphole complex 6 n (ratio of 9:6 n: 6:1) through thermal ring-opening of 2H-azaphosphirene complex 1 in neat benzonitrile. The structures of 2H-1,3,2-diazaphosphole complex 6 c, 2R,5S-D 3 -1,3,2-oxazaphospholene complex 8 a and 2H-1,4,2-diazaphosphole complex 9 were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.