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The title compound, [Ag2(NCS)2(C14H38B10P2)2], was synthesized by the reaction of 1,2-bis(diisopropylphosphanyl)-1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane with AgSCN. The diisopropylphosphanyl-closo-carborane ligand is coordinated in a bidentate manner to the AgI atom through the two P atoms. The coordination of the AgI atom is distorted tetrahedral, in which two vertices are formed by the P atoms of the chelating diphosphine ligand, and the other two are occupied by the S and N atoms of the two bridging thiocyanate anions, leading to a centrosymmetric binuclear complex. The distance between the two C atoms in the carborane skeleton is 1.851 (6) Å.