X-ray structure analysis shows that the blue solid Ni(3,5-dimethylpyridine)4(CIO4)2 is an octahedral complex compound in which the perchlorate ions are coordinated to the nickel ion, in agreement with the interpretation of spectroscopic and magnetic studies (Moore, Gayhart, & Bull, J. hwrg. and Nuclear Chem. (1964), 26, 896; Buffagni, Vailarino & Quagliano, lnorg. Chem. (1964), 3, 671). Crystals of the compound have the space-group symmetry 141/acd; a=b=15.8759 (17), c=26.7581 (25),~, Z=8. Intensities of 1712 independent reflections (Cu K~ radiation, sin 0/2<_0.639) were recorded with the Oak Ridge computer-controlled diffractometer and were corrected for absorption. The structure was solved essentially from Patterson and Fourier syntheses as a heavy-atom problem. Disorder in the arrangement of the perchlorate group made the location of the three perchlorate oxygen atoms not coordinated to nickel rather difficult; these atoms were located eventually by use of the method of least-squares, the occupancy factors of closely spaced possible positions being adjusted to find the actual positions. Although the parameters of the remainder of the structure are fairly precisely determined, those of most of the atcms of the perchlorate group are not well determined because of the disorder; and the final value of the usual discrepancy index R(F) has the rather high value 0.101. The nickel atom of the asymmetric unit is located at the point 0, k, ~ of the Wyckoff set (b) (point-group symmetry 222); the perchlorate group is in a disordered arrangement about the twofold axis x, k + x,-~, which is perpendicular to the average plane of the nickel and nitrogen atoms defined by the twofold axes x, ¼-x,~ and 0,¼,z. The angle between the Ni-O bond and the twofold axis is 9.2:'; the Ni-O bond length is 2-187 (4) °. The four organic ligands are in a propeller-like arrangement (pitch ~47 ~) around the axis through the perchlorate. The Ni-N bond length is 2.093 (2)/~. The nitrogen atoms are alternately 0-065 A above and 0.065 ,~ below their average plane. The structure is very similar to that of Ni(pyridine)4C12, which has the same space-group symmetry and nearly the same translations a and b (Porai-Koshits, Structure Reports (1954), 18, 749).