. Can. J. Chem. 70, 2809 (1 992). The preparation of the N-(2-hydroxypropy1)-N-alkylhydroxylamines, 6 a (R = CH,) and 6b (R = CH,Ph), and their reactions with phenylboronic acid are described. Regardless of the molar ratios of reactants employed, the reaction with 6b leads to the 1 : 2 condensate 1-benzyl-7-methyl-3,5-diphenyl-2,4,6-trioxa-l -azonia-3-bora-5-boratabicyclo[3.3.0]-octane, 7, while that with 6 a gives rise to the 1 : 1 condensate 1,4,6,9-tetramethyl-2,7-diphenyl-3,8,11,12-tetraoxa-l,6-diazonia-2,7-diboratatricyclo[5.3.1. 1'.6jdodecane, 11 (the cyclic BONBON dimer of 4,6-dimethyl-2-phenyl-1,3-dioxa-4-aza-2-boracyclohexane, 9). Compounds 7 and 11 both crystallize in the triclinic space group p i : for 7; a = 13.126(1), b = 15.337(1), c = 10.9469(5)0A, a = 91.727(5), P = 104.647(5), y = 72.922(7)", Z = 4; and for 11; a = 9.0807(4), b = 9.1653(3), c = 6.4876(2) A, a = 97.708(3), P = 108.830(3), y = 89.188(4)", Z = 1. The structures were solved by direct methods and were refined by full-matrix least-squares procedures to R = 0.038 and 0.032 for 5879 and 1827 reflections with I 2 3u( F '), respectively. Compound 7 has the expected bicyclic pyroboronate structure, but represents the first reported N-substituted example of this type of compound. Bond lengths involving boron in 7 are (C) @-~(sp~) = 1.428(2) and 1.420 (2) [Traduit par la redaction]