Nitrogen containing heterocyclic ligands are a topic of much interest to those interested in modeling biological systems including histidine and its imidazole-1 type bonding. Many proteins and enzymes are known to contain active sites with multiple histidine residues bound to a metal center, including, among others, the long studied carbonic anhydrase. These enzymes have been shown to contain three histidine residues bound to a metal center in a distorted tetrahedral or facial octahedral geometry, conducive for model complexes with a tridentate ligand system. Despite the fact that an imidazole may be more biologically relevant, multiple studies have been conducted on the pyrazole containing scorpionate ligand Tp-, [(C₃H₃N₂)₃BH]-, and the neutral analogue tris(pyrazol-1-yl)methane, Tpm. In the course of our investigations of metal coordination complexes with tridentate ligands as model complexes for His3-containing enzymes, we investigated the tris[2-imidazolyl] carbinol, tris [2-(N-methylimidazolyl)] carbinol, and tris[4-imidazolyl] carbinol systems in addition to the Tp complexes. Here we report the structural characterization a series of bis[tris [2-(N-methylimidazolyl)] carbinol]metal and bis[tris(2-imidazolyl) carbinol] metal complexes with M=Co, Ni.