Crystals of the salicylaldehydatogallium dimethyl dimer, [C7H5O2•GaMe2]2, are triclinic, a = 9.845(1), b = 8.6892(8), c = 7.4153(6) Å, α = 118.236(5), β = 92.46(1), γ = 115.81(1)°, Z = 1, space group [Formula: see text] The structure was solved by Patterson and Fourier syntheses and was refined by full-matrix least-squares procedures to a final R of 0.050 and Rw of 0.064 for 1644 reflections with I ≥ 3σ(I). The structure features a five-coordinate gallium atom having distorted trigonal bipyramidal geometry. Monomer units link via the formation of a four-membered Ga2O2 ring to form the centrosymmetric dimers. Bond lengths in the molecule are: Ga—O(eq), 1.933(3), Ga—O(ax), 2.127(3) and 2.469(3), Ga—C, 1.944(6) and 1.946(5), C—O, 1.333(4) and 1.231(6), C(ar)—C(sp2), 1.432(7), mean C—C(ar), 1.395(8), mean C(sp3)—H, 0.92(4), and mean C(sp2)—H, 0.93(2) Å. Bonds not involving hydrogen have been corrected for thermal motion.