A nickel-vanadium metal-organic hybrid compound [Ni(phen) 3 ] 2 [(V 2 O 2 (O 2) 2 ((S)-mand) 2)][(V 2 O 2 (O 2) 2 ((R)-mand) 2)]•18H 2 O (phen = 1,10-phenanthroline, mand 2− = mandelato(2−) ligand, C 6 H 5-CO-COO 2−) (1) was prepared and characterized by spectral methods, X-ray structure analysis and simultaneous DTA and TG measurements. The crystal structure of 1 contains both Δ and Λ enantiomers of the [Ni(phen) 3 ] 2+ cations that construct sandwich layers along the crystallographic axis c, in between which sit the vanadium(V) complex anions. These are present as ionic dimers in the form of a robust {[(V 2 O 2 (O 2) 2 ((S)-mand) 2)][(V 2 O 2 (O 2) 2 ((R)-mand) 2)]} 4− species. The two individual anions are coupled by a pair of weak, yet significant attractions between two vanadium atoms and two peroxido ligands of the adjacent anion at V-O distances 2.660 Å. The 51 V NMR spectrum of the compound in DMSO solution revealed a complicated course of decomposition reactions of the anion, which led to formation of the [(V 2 O 4 (S,R-mand) 2 ] 2− anion as a single product. The metal-organic hybrid compound 1 is converted by thermal decomposition into a potential anode material for lithium-ion batteries Ni(VO 3) 2 .