Abstract Starting with the chiral pool compounds (-)-menthone, (-)-limonene, (-)-β-pinene, and (-)-carvone, new homochiral triethanolamine derivatives were obtained and converted to chi­ral silatranes. These silatranes were characterized by crystal structure analyses and NMR techniques. Conformational analyses in the solid state and in solution show that the chiral terpene residues determine the direction of the ring puckering of the silatrane moiety.