Titanium tetra-n-butoxide, Ti(OBu n ) 4 , and zirconium tetra-n-butoxide, Zr(OBu n ) 4 , were reacted with some wellknown dioxime and monoxime ligands such as dimethylglyoxime (DMG), salicylaldoxime (SO) and acetone oxime (AO). The structures of the resulting complexes have been determined by elemental analysis, i.r. and 1 H-n.m.r. spectroscopy. The complexation ratio of both Ti(OBu n ) 4 and Zr(OBu n ) 4 was found to be 1:2 with DMG and SO. On the other hand, both 1:1 and 1:2 complexation ratios of the same metal alkoxides were observed with the ligand AO.