To better understand the complex equilibria involved in the UNEX process for acidic solvent extraction of radionuclides, the interaction of a carbamoylphosphine oxide ligand (L) with the proton of hydrated chlorinated cobalt(III)dicarbollide acid, H[Co(C2B9H8Cl3)(2)], has been studied in wet 1,2-dichlorethane (DCE) solution using IR and NMR (C-13 and P-31) spectroscopy. The formation of two groups of complexes has been determined. The first group contains three complexes with 1:1 composition of acid to ligand (Scheme 1). The second group of complexes has 1:2 composition in the equilibrium, shown in Scheme 2. Within each group, the complexes differ in composition only by the number of incorporated water molecules. The equilibria ( Schemes 1 and 2) are both very sensitive to the content of self-associated water in solution and are driven by its concentration, which is unsteady and depends on the solution preparation history. The simultaneous presence of both anhydrous (I, II) and hydrated ( III, IIIa, IV) proton solvates indicates that the enthalpies of carbamoylphosphine oxide complex formation with H+, H3O+, and H5O2+ are very close to each other.