Two μ2-tetrazolyl bridged dinuclear CuII complexes, [Cu(L1)(N3)(phen)]2 1 (HL1 = 5-phenyltetrazole, phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) and [Cu(L2)2(NH3)2]2 2 (HL2 = 5-(2-methylphenyl)-1H-tetrazole), were synthesized and characterized by X-ray single crystal diffraction and IR spectroscopy. The two complexes are dinuclear CuII entities, in which the CuII centres are linked by tetrazolate bridging ligands. However, the CuII ions of the two complexes show different coordination geometries, square pyramidal for complex 1 and trigonal-bipyramidal for complex 2, which may lead to different magnetic properties. In complex 1, a weak ferromagnetic coupling was found to exist between CuII ions, but in complex 2, weak antiferromagnetic coupling was found to be present. A van Vleck equation for the CuII dimer was written using the Ĥ = –2J[Ŝ1Ŝ2] Hamiltonian, and it was used to fit the experimental data with fitting parameters J = 0.26 cm–1 and g = 2.17 for complex 1, J = –2.34 cm–1 and g = 2.17 for complex 2, respectively.