Ebulliometric studies on the hydrolysis of tantalum pentaallcoxides Ta(OR)o, where R = Me, Prn, Bun, and Bu" have furnished important data on the polymeric nature of tantalum oxide allroxides. It is shown from the variation of number-average degrees of polymerization as a function of degree of hydrolysis that the polynlers conform to certain structural models. The structural models involve 6-co-ordinated tantalum.