“…Usually, the active methylene group of -diketones is a reaction centre in the organic transformations of this class of compounds (Ma et al, 2017a,b;Gurbanov et al, 2017aGurbanov et al, ,b, 2018Borisova et al, 2018;Jlassi et al, 2018). In contrast, there are few reports on the reactivity of -diketones as O-nucleophiles (Yusifov et al, 2013;Ledenyova et al, 2018;Vandyshev et al, 2017;Nasirova et al, 2017). Herein we found a C-O coupling reaction between cyanuric chloride and dimedone leading to the title compound 3,3 0 ,3 00 -[(1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triyl)tris(oxy)]tris(5,5-dimethylcyclohex-2-en-1-one) ( Fig.…”