Saccharinate complexes of the fourteen trivalent lanthanide cations and Y III were prepared by reaction between the respective lanthanide carbonates and saccharin in aqueous solution. Their crystal structures were determined by single crystal X-ray diffractometry. They represent three different structural types. The first family, of composition [Ln(sac)(H 2 O) 8 ](sac) 2 ·H 2 O (sac ϭ anion of saccharin; Ln ϭ La,Ce,Pr,Nd.Sm,Eu), belongs to the monoclinic space group P2 1 /c with Z ϭ 4 and the Ln III cation is in a tricapped trigonal prismatic environment with nine-fold oxygen coordination. The second group of composition [Ln(sac) 2 (H 2 O) 6 ]-(sac)(Hsac)·4H 2 O with Ln ϭ Gd,Dy,Ho,Er,Yb,Lu,and Y, pertains to the triclinic P1-space group, with Z ϭ 2 and constitutes a new