Treatment of [Et
4N]
2[WSe
4] with a 1:1 mixture of AgNO
3 and PCy
3 (Cy = cyclohexyl) in the absence of iodideafforded a linear trinuclear compound [(
-WSe
4)(AgPCy
3)
2] (
1). A similar reaction in the presence of iodide gaverise to the isolation of the cubanelike compound [(
3-WSe
4)Ag
3(PCy
3)
3(
3-I)] (
2). Treatment of [Et
4N]
2[WSe
4] withAgI in the presence of bidentate phosphine ligands bis(diphenylphosphino)amine (dppa) and bis(diphenylphosphino)methane (dppm) afforded the tetranuclear compounds [(
3-WSe
4)Ag
3(
-I)(
-dppa)
2] (
3) and [(
3-WSe
4)Ag
3(
3-I)(
-dppm)
2] (
4), respectively, which exhibit an open butterfly configuration. A novel hexanuclear cluster compound[(
3-WSe
4)
2Ag
4(
-dppm)
3] (
5) was obtained from interaction of [Et
4N]
2[WSe
4] with AgNO
3 and dppm in the absenceof iodide source. The above cluster compounds are electrically neutral and air-stable in both solution and the solidstate and have been characterized by electronic, infrared, mass, and NMR spectroscopies. The solid-state structuresof five cluster compounds have been established by X-ray crystallography. The nonlinear optical properties ofcompounds
4 and
5 were examined by
z-scan techniques with 7 ns pulses at 532 nm. The optical limiting effectsof compounds
1,
2,
4, and
5 were determined and compared with related argentoselenometallic compounds.