They are reduced derivatives of 1,3,5-triazine, which have the formula (CHN)3, a family of aromatic heterocycles.
These triacyltriazines arise from the reaction of hexamethylene tetraamine with acid chlorides or the condensation of amides with formaldehyde.
[4] Unlike the parent triazines, the hexahydro derivatives are conformationally flexible.
They have the formula (RNC(O))3 and based on the isocyanuric (trione) tautomer of cyanuric acid.
Examples include Mo(CO)3[(CH2)3(NMe)3] formed from the TACH ligand and molybdenum hexacarbonyl.