One and two electron electrochemical oxidation of the (dppe)Ni(Cat) complexes (dppe is bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane, Cat is the sterically hindered catechol dianion) was studied. The transfer of the first electron proceeds reversibly to give paramagnetic species; parameters of their EPR spectra attest to a square planar geometry of one electron oxidation products. The transfer of the second electron is irreversible because of co proportionation of radical cations involving the initial complexes and the generated dications.In recent years, metal coordination compounds with paramagnetic ligands, including о semiquinone ligands, have attracted considerable attention of researchers. The molecules of these compounds can contain several para magnetic centers of various nature, whose sign and energy of exchange interactions are determined by the electronic structure and geometric features. 1-3 Paramagnetic ligands are often electrochemically active; the electrochemical reduction or oxidation of complexes may involve not only transformations of the central metal ion but also ligand transformations, which change the magnetic properties of the ligands and the system as a whole.By combining electrochemical methods with ESR spectroscopy, one can gain additional information about the electrode processes, electronic structure, geometry, and reactivity of depolarizers. In some cases, using the ESR spectrum of a paramagnetic substrate, one can iden tify the localization region of the unpaired electron and the geometry of magnetic nuclei.Methods for simultaneous recording of ESR signals and electrochemical characteristics using an electrolytic cell-ESR in a cavity of the ESR spectrometer in a potentiostatic mode, by chronopotentiomety, and cyclic voltammetry (CV) are known. 4,5 However, direct com parison of CV curves and ESR signal levels is not entirely valid, because the current is the first derivative of the charge that has passed through the cell, while the ESR signal level is proportional to the proper charge related to the depolarizer under study.Currently a new method, electron spin resonance detected voltammetry (V-ESR) is being developed. This method comprises two traditional methods, voltammetry and ESR, which are combined by an original three elec trode electrolytic ESR cell 6 (El-ESR) for investigation of paramagnetic species and a computer controlling the ESR spectrometer and the electrochemical setup consist ing of a programming device and a potentiostat. The method allows simultaneous recording of usual volt ammetric curves i(E) and also dependences of the ESR signal intensity (s(E)) and its first derivative (s´(E)) on the potential. In this work, the V-ESR technique was used to study nickel catecholate complexes 1 and 2 with bis(di phenylphosphino)ethane (dppe).