Four new complexes, ijNiIJbpy) 3 ] 2 ijTaOIJC 2 O 4 ) 3 ]ClĴ11H 2 O (1), ijNiIJbpy) 3 ] 2 ijTaOIJC 2 O 4 ) 3 ]ClĴ12H 2 O (2), ij{NiIJbpy) 2 } 2 IJμ-C 2 O 4 )] 1.5 ijTaOIJC 2 O 4 ) 3 ]Ĵ13H 2 O (3) and ij{NiIJbpy) 2 } 2 IJμ-C 2 O 4 )]IJNO 3 ) 2 ĴH 2 C 2 O 4 (4) (bpy = 2,2′-bipyridine), have been prepared and investigated by IR spectroscopy and thermal analysis; compounds 1, 2 and 4 have been characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. In these Ni-Ta oxalate systems the crystal disassembly/reassembly process was observed. Stick-like single crystals of 1 disassemble in the mother liquor and again reassemble to form polyhedral single crystals of 2 having an additional water molecule.Compounds 1 and 2 crystallize in different crystal systems (P2 1 /c vs. P2 1 2 1 2 1 ); nevertheless they exhibit very similar crystal packing of the constituent structural units: the ijNiIJbpy) 3 ] 2+ cations are involved in a specific intermolecular contact, quadruple aryl embrace (QAE), in a honeycomb 2D hexagonal network, whereas the ijTaOIJC 2 O 4 ) 3 ] 3− anions and water molecules constitute a 3D hydrogen bonding sublattice. A survey of the Cambridge Structural Database was performed in order to find similar QAE contacts within the crystal structures containing the ijMIJbpy) 3 ] n+ cation. In a Ni-Ta oxalate system with a different ij{NiIJbpy) 2 } 2 IJμ-C 2 O 4 )] 2+ cation environment, compound 3 was obtained. The disassembly/reassembly process occurs in the mother liquor containing crystals of 3, and after two weeks it yields crystals of 4 with different constituent units: the homodinuclear ij{NiIJbpy) 2 } 2 IJμ-C 2 O 4 )] 2+ cation remains unchanged, whereas the IJoxalato)tantalateIJV) anion decomposes during disassembly of 3 and NO 3 − takes its place as the counteranion in the reassembled crystal form of 4.