Preceramic polymers to boron nitride (BN) have been synthesized by thermal condensation of different (alkylamino)borazine monomers. Crystalline BN was obtained by pyrolysis of those polymeric precursors in NH 3 and then in Ar. The influence of monomer structure on the chemical composition, microstructure, oxidation resistance and high temperature stability of BN was investigated by a combination of elemental analysis (EA), density measurement, FTIR, XPS, XRD, HRTEM and TGA. With similar chemical composition, BN derived from symmetric monomer exhibited a higher crystallinity, better oxidation resistance and higher temperature stability. This was because that the structure of the precursor polymerized from symmetric molecular was close to that of hexagonal BN (h-BN).