Solvent-induced trinuclear Ni II complexes, [{Ni(L)(MeOH)} 2 (OAc) 2 Ni]·2MeOH (1), [{Ni(L) (EtOH)} 2 (OAc) 2 Ni]·2H 2 O (2), [{Ni(L)(n-PrOH)} 2 (OAc) 2 Ni]·2H 2 O (3) and [{Ni(L)(i-PrOH)} 2 (OAc) 2 Ni](4), have been prepared with an unsymmetric Salamo-like ligand H 2 L, and characterized via X-ray crystallography, FT-IR, UV-Vis and fluorescence spectra. In complexes 1, 2, 3 and 4, there are two ligand (L) 2− moieties, two acetato ligands, two coordinated methanol, ethanol, n-propanol or i-propanol molecules, respectively, as well as other crystallizing solvent molecules. Two acetato ligands coordinated to the three Ni II ions via usual Ni-O-C-O-Ni bridges, and four µ-phenoxo oxygen atoms coming from two [NiL(solvent)] units coordinate to the central Ni II ions. Although different solvents are induced in the complexes, all the Ni II ions are six-coordinated and adopt geometries of distorted octahedron. Magnetic measurements were performed on complex 2, an intramolecular antiferromagnetic interaction was observed between Ni II ions and a simulation of the experimental data gives J = −2.96 cm −1 and g = 2.30.