The gadolinium(III) trifluoroacetates ((CH 3 ) 2 NH 2 )[Gd(CF 3 COO) 4 ] (1), ((CH 3 ) 3 NH)[Gd(CF 3 COO) 4 (H 2 O)] (2), Gd(CF 3 COO) 3 (H 2 O) 3 (3) as well as Gd 2 (CF 3 COO) 6 (H 2 O) 2 (phen) 3 · C 2 H 5 OH (4) (phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) were synthesized and structurally characterized by X-ray crystallography. These compounds crystallize in the space group P1 (No. 2, Z = 2) (1, 2 and 4) and P 2 1 /c (No. 14, Z = 4) (3), respectively, with the following lattice constants 1: a = 884.9(2), b = 1024.9(2), c = 1173.1 (2) (5) • . The compounds consist of Gd 3+ ions which are bridged by carboxylate groups either to chains (1 and 2) or to dimers (3 and 4). In addition to the Gd 3+ dimers, compound (4) also contains monomeric Gd 3+ units. The magnetic behaviour of 2 and 3 was investigated in a temperature range of 1.77 to 300 K. The magnetic data for these compounds indicate weak antiferromagnetic interactions.