Polynuclear chromium ascorbate complexes were isolated and physicochemically analyzed in a comparative manner with their mononuclear analog (1). Characterization by elemental analysis, electronic, vibrational, 13 C-n.m.r and mass spectroscopies, and variable temperature magnetic susceptibility studies, allowed structural proposals for the binuclear, [Cr 2 (l-OH) 2 (H 2 O)(C 6 H 7 O 6 ) 3 (OH)] AE 4H 2 O (2), and trinuclear, [Cr 3 (l-O) 3 (H 2 O) 6 (C 6 H 7 O 6 ) 3 ] AE 4 H 2 O (3) complexes. The pseudo-octahedral Cr III centers were suggested to be connected through hydroxo bridges in (2) and in (3) by oxo bridges forming a hexocyclic ring.