Keywords: Lithium / Aggregation / N ligands / Nitrogen heterocycles / Structure elucidationThe cyclic triaminal 1,3,5-tri-tert-butyl-1,3,5-triazacyclohexane (TtBuTAC) was treated with tBuLi, but instead of the expected deprotonation at a CH 2 unit, the [(TtBuTAC)-(tBuLi)] (2) adduct was formed. This is a monomeric tetracoordinate form of tBuLi; its molecular structure was determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) and it is likely to be monomeric in C 6 D 6 solution according to 1 H NMR, 13 C NMR, and 7 Li NMR spectroscopy. TtBuTAC reacts with nBuLi to give a laddertype [(TtBuTAC)(nBuLi) 2 ] 2 aggre-[a] Universität Bielefeld,