A survey of our recent work on organoaluminum and organogallium hydrides is presented. Three types of ligand system have been employed for the stabilization of monomeric aluminum and gallium mono- and dihydrides. The two-armed 2,6-bis (dimethylaminomethyl) phenyl ligand is effective when intramolecular bis(base) stabilization is necessary; its use has permitted the isolation of the first examples of monomeric aluminum and gallium dihydrides. The use of the corresponding one-armed 2-(dimethylaminomethyl) phenyl ligand resulted in the formation of gallium mono- and dihydride monomers and an aluminum dihydride dimer. The first base-free aluminum and gallium monohydrides and gallium dihydride have been stabilized by employing the bulky 2, 4, 6,-tris(t-butyl) phenyl ligand.