The nature of the interaction between chloromethanes CH 4-n Cl n and Pt(II) complexes has been studied by highpressure X-ray diffraction and infrared spectroscopy in combination with DFT calculations. In case of electron rich complexes such as d 8 -Pt(btz-N,N′)(phenyl)L with L = phenyl, Cl, Br and btz = 2,2′-Bi-5,6-dihydro-4H-1,3-thiazine stable chloroform adducts with bridging hydrogen atoms in the η 1 (C-H)Pt moieties were isolated which display highly activated C-H bonds. This activa-The activation of carbon-hydrogen bonds is usually hampered by their rather apolar covalent character and large bond dissociation energies. For example the C-H bond dissociation enthalpies in simple alkanes such as methane [DH 298 = 439.28(13) kJ mol -1 ] are virtually as large as in the H 2 molecule [DH 298 = 435.998(13) kJ mol -1 ] displaying the prototype of a strong covalent bond. [1] As a consequence, alkanes are neither good electron donors nor good acceptors since the σ(C-H) bonding orbital is low in energy while the antibonding σ*(C-H) orbital is high lying. Hence, C-H bonds are generally considered to be chemically rather inert and their selective activation remains a challenge in organometallic chemistry. [2][3][4] This obstacle can be overcome by metal-assisted C-H bond activation in cases where an alkane ligand coordinates either end-on (η 1 ) or side-on (η 2 ) to a metal-ligand fragment ML n (Scheme 1). [5,6] In case of electron-rich late transition metal complexes two bonding scenarios with short M···H br -C contacts are usually observed for methane and halomethane d 8 -Pt complexes, where H br denotes a bridging hydrogen atom. These are illustrated in case of the theoretical model systems (CH 3 ) 2 Pt(NH 3 )(CH 4 ) 1a and (CH 3 ) 2 Pt(NH 3 ) 2 ·(CHCl 3 ) 1b in Scheme 1. We note, that all DFT calculations were performed with ADF using the BP86 functional, the ZORA for the descrip- [a]