Late-transition-metal complexes with silylene (SiR 2 ) ligands have attracted considerable attention since the proposal of platinum-silylene intermediates in the [PtCl 2 (PEt 3 ) 2 ]-catalyzed reactions that convert organodisilanes into oligosilanes and the cyclic adducts into alkynes.[1] Mononuclear silylene complexes of platinum [2] and other late transition metals [3] were not isolated until some years later, probably because of the extremely high reactivity of most M = Si double bonds. Dinuclear complexes of late transition metals with bridging silylene ligands are more common.[4] The dinuclear platinum complex [{Pt(PR 3 )} 2 (m-SiHPh 2 ) 2 ] (PR 3 = PPh 3 , PCy 3 etc.) has been reported.[5] However, in spite of the stable coordination of bridging silylene ligands, complexes containing three or more metal atoms with bridging Si ligands have few precedents, [6] and those known are stabilized by electron-withdrawing CO and CNR ligands.[7] Braddock-Wilking and coworkers [8] and our group [9,10] have reported zero-valent triangular Pt 3 complexes, stabilized by bridging silylene and phosphine ligands. Chen, Shimada, and Tanaka employed 1,2-disilabenzene as a ligand and prepared trinuclear Pd complexes supported by the Si ligands.[11]Herein, we report the synthesis and unexpected structure of a planar tetranuclear Pd 0 complex with three bridging SiPh 2 ligands as well as facile exchange of the bridging silylene ligands to yield a dumbbell-shaped octapalladium complex composed of two Pd 4 units bridged by a diphosphine ligand. These complexes, composed of Pd 0 centers and electrondonating Si and phosphine ligands, possess a unique planar {Pd 4 Si 3 } core.Heating a mixture of a dipalladium complex with bridging diphenylsilyl ligands, [{Pd(PCy 3 )} 2 (m-h 2 -SiHPh 2 ) 2 ] (1), [12] The molecular structure of 2 was determined by singlecrystal X-ray diffraction (Figure 1). [14] Complex 2 has a hexagonal {Pd 4 Si 3 } core incorporating one central Pd atom,