Pierre Braunstein, Chantal Charles, Pierre Braunstein, Guido Kickelbick and Ulrich Schubert
A new tetranuclear FePdFeSn four-membered ring cluster, which could be viewed as a bent chain complex FePdFe bridged by a stannylene ligand, is obtained from a Fe2Sn2 precursor by Ph2PCH2PPh2 (dppm)-assisted palladium incorporation; it provides the first example of a Sn–Fe–Pd linkage.