The formation of Zn-Zn bonds in a catalytic fashion has limited precedent but might offer advantages over current synthetic approaches. Carmona's synthesis of Cp*Zn-ZnCp* was a breakthrough result for the field but requires a multistep synthesis that involves sacrificial use of Cp* ligands. Alternative approaches involving the dehydrocoupling do exist but are currently limited to systems bearing diketiminate ligands that contain a phosphine arm which acts as a directing group to anchor the catalyst for dehydrocoupling. No such limitations exist in the catalytic dehydrocoupling of 1b to 3 and as such the methodology can be thought of in terms of the first directing-group free method to catalytically dehydrocouple zinc-hydride complexes.