An asymmetric polycyanide iron complex, K 2 [Fe III (L1)-(CN) 4 ](MeOH) (HL1 = 2,2′-(1H-pyrazole-3,5-diyl)bis-pyridine), was synthesized and its complexation compatibility with nickel ions was examined. Two kinds of enantiomeric nickel-iron squares were obtained in the presence of a chiral bidentate capping ligand. The compounds display unusual cyanide bridge geometry and have ferromagnetic interactions between nickel and iron ions.The cyanide group is a valuable unit for the construction of molecular assemblies with magnetic and electronic interactions between metal ions because it can form linear bridges between neighbouring metal centres. Cyanometallates are well known in the literature, and can form coordination bonds to transition metal ions through their terminal N donor atoms. 1 Many examples of functional cyanide-bridged molecular assemblies have been reported. 2 Indeed, molecular magnets such as singlemolecule magnets (SMMs) and single chain magnets (SCMs), the properties of which are reliant upon the interactions mediated by cyanide bridges, can be controllably constructed following modular approaches to molecular design with cyanometallate units. 3,4 For example, combinations of building units with two or three free cyanide groups can often lead to the synthesis of square type [M 2 M′ 2 ] molecules. 5 Such discrete molecules have been shown to display dynamic spin transition phenomena such as multi-spin crossover behaviour and electron-transfer-coupled spin transitions (ETCST). 6 The development of new polycyano building blocks may be important for the generation of novel functional molecular systems. Therefore, we have focussed on the syntheses of polycyano iron complexes with a polynucleating ligand. In this work, the bis-bidentate ligand, 3,5-bis(2-pyridyl)-pyrazolate (HL1), was chosen as the capping ligand and a novel tetracyanoferrate complex was developed. Using the tetracyano iron complex as a building block, two cyanide-bridged tetranuclear nickel-iron complexes were synthesized and their magnetic properties were investigated.The tetracyanoferrate complex, K 2 [Fe III (L1)(CN) 4 ](MeOH) (1·MeOH), was synthesized by the reaction of Fe-(NH 4 ) 2 (SO 4 ) 2 ·6H 2 O in boiling water with HL1 and KCN. ‡ Single crystal X-ray analysis of 1·MeOH reveals that the pyrazolate group of the ligand is deprotonated and coordinates to one iron and one potassium ion which occupy the two bidentate sites of L1 (Fig. 1). The second potassium ion connects neighbouring complexes through the CN groups. 1 forms a one-dimensional network structure linked by potassium ions. § The combination of the tetracyanoferrate complex 1 with NiCl 2 ·6H 2 O and the