For some decades bidentate ligands have prevailed in the field of transition-metal catalysis. [1] The superiority of bidentate ligands over monodentates was explained by the higher conformational rigidity of the ligands and their stronger coordination to the metal. [1b] However, in the last few years monodentate ligands have experienced a revival, and moreover interest in rational ligand design has grown tremendously: [2] Monodentate ligands have been developed which are able to self-assemble in the coordination sphere of the metal center through weak ligand-ligand interactions, such as hydrogen bonding [2d-g] and metal-bridged coordinative bonding. [2h-j] However, the use of weak interligand interactions based on CH-p and p-p interactions for rational ligand design is still very challenging. [2a] Various experimental and theoretical approaches have been devised to investigate and quantify noncovalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding and p-p stacking and their dependency on solvent properties. [3] The "double-mutant cycles" developed by Fersht et al. have become a powerful thermodynamic tool for the experimental quantification of single noncovalent interactions in proteins and in host-guest model systems. [4] In addition the "molecular torsion balance" developed by Wilcox and co-workers [5] has been applied to quantify CH-p interactions and aromatic interactions in organic molecules. [3a,b] However, no method has been presented to measure the contribution of noncovalent ligandligand interactions within transition-metal complexes to date. For guest-host systems binding constants are typically used for the quantification of noncovalent interactions. However, in the case of metal complexes the binding constant reflects not only noncovalent interactions, but primarily metal-ligand binding based on electronic properties such as the s-donor/pacceptor properties of the ligands. Therefore, for the measurement of pure ligand-ligand interactions, covalent and noncovalent contributions to the binding constant must be separated. In addition, possible changes in the electronic and electrostatic properties must be considered, that is, changes in the stereoelectronic properties of the metal-ligand bond and of the electrostatic contributions of the dipoles due to reorientation within the ligands upon cis-trans isomerization. To the best of our knowledge, it was previously not possible to separate and quantify the contributions of noncovalent interactions (e.g. CH-p and p-p interactions) from stereoelectronic properties and electrostatic interactions in transition-metal complexes.In this study we present the first method for the quantification of noncovalent ligand-ligand interactions in transition-metal complexes separated from stereoelectronic and electrostatic effects. Based on the formation trends of different phosphoramidite palladium complexes the free energy difference DDG caused by the formation of additional attractive CH-p interactions was determined. Moreover, 1 H 1 H NOESY measurements and 1 H chemical shi...