The preparation and physical properties of octahedral and trigonal bipyramidal complexes incorporating the tris-chelating ligands [Me2Ga(N2C5H7)(OCH2CH2NR′2)]− (R′ = H or Me) are described. Crystals of [dimethylbis(3,5-dimethyl-1-pyrazolyl)gallato (N(2),N′(2))][dimethyl (3,5 - dimethyl-1-pyrazolyl) (N,N-dimethylethanolamino(gallato (N(2), O, N(3))]nickel(II) are triclinic, a = 20.8562(11), b = 9.1536(4), c = 8.2798(4) Å, α = 100.204(3), β = 85.513(4), γ = 101.989(3)°, Z = 2, space group [Formula: see text]. The structure was solved by Patterson and Fourier syntheses and was refined by full-matrix least-squares procedures to R = 0.048 and Rw = 0.078 for 5508 reflections with I ≥ 3σ(I). The coordination about the Ni atom is distorted trigonal bipyramidal with the two nitrogen atoms from the Me2Ga(N2C5H7)2 ligand occupying equatorial positions. The tridentate Me2Ga(N2C5H7)(OCH2CH2NMe2) ligand is meridionally coordinated with the oxygen in the equatorial and the two nitrogens in the axial positions. Important bond lengths (corrected for libration) are: Ni—N(eq), 2.005(3) and 2.006(3), Ni—O, 1.993(3), Ni—N(pz—ax), 2.072(3), Ni—N(amino), 2.229(3), Ga—O, 1.913(3), Ga—N, 1.971(3)–1.989(3), and Ga—C, 1.961(10)–1.986(6) Å.