While the activation of relatively inert gases such as N 2 and CO with organometallic complexes remains a topic of intense investigation, methods for controlling the reactivity of nitric oxide at transition-metal centers have received considerably less attention. [1][2][3] For example, the migratory insertion of NO into metal-alkyl or metal-aryl bonds has been observed in only a handful of metal complexes, [3] despite the analogous reaction of CO dominating its organometallic chemistry and being the key step in many homogeneous catalytic processes. Although the paucity of studies in this field may be a reflection of the often complicated background reactivity of NO, [4] the potential to develop selective reactions incorporating NO that form new carbon-nitrogen bonds represents an attractive approach in organic synthesis.It is in this context that we are interested in the ligandbased reaction of metal nitrosyl complexes with alkenes.[5] In the absence of metal coordination the reaction chemistry of NO with alkenes is unruly.[4] Furthermore, only a few transition-metal complexes have been shown to promote this reaction selectively. Thus, inspired by an early finding of Brunner and Loskot, we demonstrated in the 1980s that [{CpCo(NO)} 2 ], NO and strained or alkyl-substituted alkenes react cleanly to form the corresponding dinitrosoalkane complexes [1, Eq. (1)].[2, 5a-c] More recently this chemistry has been used to develop a method for C À C bond formation. [5d,e] In addition, the reaction of K[IrCl 5 (NO)] with alkenes to yield iridium nitrosoalkane complexes, [6] and the reaction of [TpRuCl 2 (NO)] (Tp = tris(pyrazolyl)borate) with 2-vinylpyridine to yield a nitrosoalkene complex have been reported. [7] In spite of the above reactions, there are not many C À N bond-forming reactions of metal nitrosyls and double additions remain especially rare. We now report an example of this type of reactivity with the novel dinitrosyl complex [RuCl 2 (NO) 2 (THF)], which binds alkenes to the nitrosyl nitrogen atoms at room temperature in the presence of an additional neutral chelating ligand, L 2 . (2) as a brown crystalline solid in 88 % yield (Scheme 1). In the solid state, 2 possesses near-perfect square-based pyramidal geometry at the metal (t = 0.04), [8] with one bent NO ligand occupying the apical site and one linear NO ligand occupying an equatorial site trans to coordinated THF (Figure 1). The remaining trans-disposed coordination sites of the basal plane are occupied by chloride ligands.Complex 2 represents a rare example of a metal dinitrosyl complex possessing both linear and bent nitric oxide ligands in the solid state. The first structurally characterized example of such a complex, [RuCl(NO) 2 (PPh 3 ) 2 ]PF 6 (3), was reported by Eisenberg and co-workers and, while cationic, provides an important point of comparison. [9,10] The bending of apical nitrosyl ligands in five-coordinate complexes has been the topic of theoretical discussions.[11] Although ruthenium-nitrogen bond lengths (3, 1.743(20) ; 2, 1.727(5)...