Syntheses and characterizations are described for C-H insertion products derived from 1,3-dimesityldihydroimidazol-2-ylidene (1) with acetylene. acetonitrile, methyl phenyl sulfone, and chloroform. In the reaction with acetylene, both acetylenic H-atoms are reactive so that 1 : 1 and 2 :1 adducts can be obtained. The acetylene and methyl-phenyl-sulfone adducts are structurally characterized by means of single-crystal X-ray structure determinations. The reactions of 1,3,4,5-tetramethylimidazolidin-2-ylidene (8) with chloroform or chlorodifluoromethane are shown to yield 2-(dihaloalkyl)imidazolium salts that arise from a failure of the intermediate 2-protioimidazolium salt to capture the initially formed halocarbanion.