Three oxovanadium(IV) complexes with bidentate ligands having only oxygen donor atoms, benzohydroxamic acid (Hben), 8-hydroxyquinoline-N-oxide(Hhqno) and picolinic acid-N-oxide (Hpicn) are prepared and magnetic and spectroscopic properties are investigated for the complexes $VO(ben)_2,;VO(hqno)_2;and ;VO(picn)_2.$ Magnetic data together with IR results strongly indicate that dimeric intermolecular interaction is significant in $VO(ben)_2$ while the presence of polymeric V-O${cdot}{cdot}$V-O interaction is suggestive in $VO(picn)_2$. For all three complexes, three electronic d-d transitions were observed; extremely strong optical absorption of these bands of $VO(ben)_2$ in DMSO are supposed to be arised from a great metal-ligand covalency. Some fundamental vibration modes of oxovanadium(IV) complexes were empirically assigned from the differences in the spectrum of metal complexes with free ligand.