Calculations of three structures of the 1-methyl-3-(trichlorogermyl)propionic acid molecule and its dimers were performed at the RHF/6-31G(d) level with the full geometry optimization. According to the calculations, in this molecule in a gaseous state the Ge atom is most likely pentacoordinated due to the Ge←O coordination interaction. The dimerization does not diminish, but slightly increases the strength of Ge←O coordination bond. At the formation of the Ge←O bond the electron density on the oxygen atom increases and on the Ge atom decreases. The comparison of the results of calculations with X-ray diffraction data and with the 35 Cl NQR spectrum shows that stereoelectronic structure of this compound in the crystalline and gaseous states are quite different.The XRD analysis of 1-methyl-3-(trichlorogermyl) propionic acid showed that Ge←:O interaction occurring in this molecule was much weaker than in the 3-(trichlorogermyl)propionamide, 2-methyl-3-(trichlorogermyl)propionic acid N,N-dimethylamide, and 1-(1-trichlorogermylethyl)pyrrolidone-2, but somewhat stronger than in the 3-(trichlorogermyl)propionic acid [1]. In the molecule of 1-methyl-3-(trichlorogermyl)propionic acid the coordination polyhedron of the Ge atom tends to transformation from the tetrahedral to a trigonal-bipyramidal structure, there is a noticeable trend to a differentiation of the bonds of Ge atom into axial and equatorial ones, namely, the Ge-Cl bond in trans position to oxygen atom is longer than the other two (Table 1). In the crystal, these molecules are bound into dimers by the O-H···O hydrogen bonds, which results in weakening of the coordination Ge←O bond in the dimer compared with the aforementioned molecule [1]. The nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) spectrum on the 35 Cl nuclei of this compound at 77 K (23.929, 22.870, and 22.078 MHz) indicates a substantial nonequivalence of all three Ge-Cl bonds. Such nonequivalence is not characteristic of the tetrahedral or trigonal-bipyramidal Ge atom. In this molecule the coordination polyhedron is of intermediate structure [2].To examine further the stereoelectronic structure of 1-methyl-3-(trichlorogermyl)propionic acid, the nature of coordination Ge←O bond in it, and the effect on it of dimerization, we performed quantum-chemical calculations of three possible structures of this molecule and its dimers by RHF/6-31G(d) method with the full geometry optimization using the GAUSSIAN 03W software [3]. The XRD structural data and 35 Cl NQR spectra of the 1-methyl-3-(trichlorogermyl)propionic acid were obtained in the crystalline state, where the molecules not always are in the energetically most favorable form (e.g., see [4,5]). Therefore, it seemed appropriate to explore stereoelectronic structure of this acid in the gaseous state and compare it with the existing XRD data and the 35 Cl NQR spectra. In the calculations, for the origin of the coordinate system the chlorine atom was chosen whose 35 Cl NQR parameters should be determined. The Zaxis of the system coincided with the direction of the ...