Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D5SC05373K, Edge Article Dawid Jędrzkiewicz, Michael Morasch, Oliver Townrow, Bastian Rösch, Jens Langer, Zachary Mathe, Sjoerd Harder Mechanochemical reduction of β-diketiminate (BDI) barium iodide precursors with K/KI resulted in the first barium inverse sandwich complexes containing the benzene dianion in yields of up to 54%. This most...