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This study reports the successful isolation of five new heteroleptic species by reacting Rh4(CO)12 with various bidentate diphosphines under homogeneous conditions and at room temperature, namely the mono-substituted Rh4(CO)10(dppe) (1) and Rh4(CO)10(dppb) (3), the rare bis-substituted derivative Rh4(CO)8(dppe)2 (2), and the two unique dimeric assemblies {Rh4(CO)10(dpp-hexane)}2 (4) and {Rh4(CO)10(trans-dppe)}2 (5). The tetrahedral Rh4 core of the cluster precursor was preserved in all cases. The new compounds were characterized via infrared (IR) spectroscopy and single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SC-XRD). Furthermore, variable-temperature (VT) 31P{1H} NMR spectroscopy elucidated the dynamic behavior of the phosphorus atoms. 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