On dehydration of La[Co(CN)6]5H2O, the color of the complex, changes from white to pale blue at around 230C. Heating the pale blue specimen, the color changes to deep blue at around 290C. This deep blue specimen is easily rehydrated to a pink one. As reported previously, in the pale blue specimen, Co3+ ions are situated in the center of the D4h crystal field formed by six CN- ions. The deep blue specimen is due to the presence of [Co(CN)4]2- ions in which Co2+ was situated in a Td coordination field formed by four CN- ions and the Co-C bond length is 1.67 Ĺ. The pink species corresponded to trans-[Co(CN)4(H2O)2]2- and the bond lengths of Co-C and Co-O are 1.89 and 1.85 Ĺ, respectively. The Raman spectra of the complex observed at 25C displays two bands at 2157 and 2176 cm-1 associated with the vibration of C-N bond, and the band of 2157 cm-1 was split into two bands, 2150 and 2156 cm-1, at around 100C. When the complex was heated to around 230C, three new bands were observed at 2103, 2116 and 2141 cm-1. The bands of 2103 and 2116 cm-1 were assigned to the stretching vibration of C=N bonding to Co2+. The band of 2141 cm-1 was assigned to the stretching vibration of the inverted CN- as follows: Co-C=N-La→Co-N=C-La. The activation energy for the inversion of CN- was estimated as 67 kJ mol-1.