“…Over the last few decades, pentafulvenes have found plenty of applications in organometallic chemistry (Preethalayam et al, 2017;Neuenschwander, 1989), one of which is their use as versatile ligands for a variety of early and late transition metals featuring a multitude of coordination modes and reactivity patterns (Preethalayam et al, 2017;Kreindlin & Rybinskaya, 2004). Whereas for late transition metals 2 -and 4 -bindng modes are known (Kim et al, 2000;Rais & Bergman, 2004), most metals are bound in an 6 -manner, either in a neutral olefinic 2 : 2 : 2 (Konietzny et al, 2010) or in a dianionic 5 : 1 fashion (Ebert et al, 2014). The change of polarity at the exocyclic carbon atom of the pentafulvene ligand, resulting from its bonding to the central metal atom, enables a multitude of insertion reactions and C-H-activation reactions that are of great interest to our research group (Ebert et al, 2014;Manssen et al, 2015Manssen et al, , 2017Oswald et al, 2016) .…”