NÀH bond activation of amines has attracted increasing attention owing to its applicability to the synthesis of various amino compounds, and the development of a new and effective reaction system for the activation of ammonia must be one of the most important research targets in connection with the transformation of abundant and inexpensive ammonia into a useful amino compound.[1] However, successful examples of activation of the NÀH bond of ammonia are still rare because of both the high NÀH bond dissociation energy ( % 104 AE 2 kcal mol À1 ) [2] and the difficulty in forming an NÀH s complex.[3]The groups of Milstein [1g, i, j] and Hartwig [1k, q] showed independently that some mononuclear iridium(i) complexes exhibited activity towards oxidative addition of ammonia. A highly unsaturated 14 e species with T-shaped geometry was proposed as a reactive intermediate for the NÀH bond cleavage on the basis of kinetic studies.[1q] Some complexes containing a d 0 metal center, such as [Cp* 2 MH 2 ] (M = Zr, Hf; Cp* = pentamethylcyclopentadiene), [1b, c, e] [Cp* 2 ScR], [1f] and [(neopentyl) 3 Ta = C(H)(tBu)], [1h] also activated ammonia to generate amido and nitrido complexes. There have, thus far, been examples of bimetallic oxidative addition to ammonia. A trinuclear carbonyl cluster, [Os 3 (CO) 11 (L)] (L = c-C 6 H 8 or CH 3 CN), effectively activates ammonia with the participation of the two osmium centers to produce the m-amido complex [Os 3 (CO) 10 (m-H)(m-NH 2 )]. [1a, d] A multimetallic system may work more efficiently for bond activation than a monometallic complex owing to the cooperative action of the metal centers. Each metal center would be allotted a part as a binding site and an activation site, and the transition state of the bond-activation step may, therefore, be stabilized.