The 1,2-di-tert-butylcyclopentadienyl anion (1) has been used to prepare 1,1',2,2'-tetra-tert-butyltitanocene dichloride (5), 1,1',2,2'-tetra-tert-butylzirconocene dichloride (6), and 1,1',2,2'-tetra-tert-butyluranocene dichloride (7), The bent metallocene structures of 5-7 have been confirmed by X-ray crystallography, and illustrate that the 1,2-di-tert-butylcyclopentadienyl ligands are arranged with all four tert-butyl groups in the open part of the wedge between the two canted cyclopentadienyl rings, but that steric interactions between the substituents afford a conformationally dictated C-2 symmetry for the molecules, In solution compounds 5 and 6 exhibit NMR spectra consistent with a facile dynamic process involving exchange between tert-butyl sites that are inequivalent in the solid state. The nature of this site exchange is discussed, and comparisons are made with related metallocene dichlorides of Group 4 metals.