The coordination mode of dppf {dppf ) 1,1′-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene} at triosmium and triruthenium carbonyl clusters has been studied. Heating [Os 3 (CO) 12 ] with dppf in the presence of Me 3 -NO in benzene at 60 °C furnishes three triosmium compounds, [Os 3 (CO) 11 (κ 1 -dppf)] (1), [Os 3 (CO) 10 -(κ 2 -dppf)] (2), and [Os 3 (CO) 10 (µ-dppf)] (3) in 10, 20, and 30% yields, respectively. Reaction of the labile cluster [Os 3 (CO) 10 (MeCN) 2 ] with dppf at room temperature also gives 1, 2, and 3 (5, 10, and 35% yields). Treatment of 1, which contains a pendant diphosphine, with Me 3 NO at room temperature affords 2 via a ring closure reaction, whereas heating 2, in which the dppf ligand is chelating, at 110 °C affords the thermodynamically stable bridging isomer 3, in which phosphorus atoms are bound at equatorial positions. Reaction of the unsaturated cluster [Os 3 (CO) 10 (µ-H) 2 ] (4) with dppf in refluxing THF affords the bridging complex [Os 3 (CO) 8 (µ-dppf)(µ-H) 2 ] (6) in high yield as the sole product. Hydrogenation of 3 with H 2 at 110 °C at 1 atm also yields 6. Reactions of both the saturated [Os 3 (CO) 10 (µ-dppm)] ( 7) and electrondeficient [Os 3 (CO) 8 {µ 3 -Ph 2 PCH 2 P(Ph)C 6 H 4 }(µ-H)] (8) with dppf at 110 °C and at room temperature respectively yield [Os 3 (CO) 9 (µ-dppm)(κ 1 -dppf)] ( 9) and [Os 3 (CO) 8 (µ-dppm)(κ 2 -dppf)] (10). Compound 9 converts to 10 at 110 °C via CO loss and phosphorus coordination. Reaction of [Ru 3 (CO) 12 ] with dppf in the presence of Me 3 NO affords the dihydroxy-bridged complex, [Ru 3 (CO) 8 (µ-dppf)(µ-OH) 2 ] (13), together with the previously reported compounds [Ru 3 (CO) 10 (µ-dppf)] ( 11) and [Ru 3 (CO) 8 (µ-dppf) 2 ] (12).