“…Aliphatic alcohols5 and ethers6 are the only organic compounds with dico-ordinated oxygen investigated systematically by 170 NMR spectroscopy. These investigations revealed quite reliable linear correlations between the "0 chemical shifts in alcohols, ROH, and in dialkyl ethers, R'OR', and the 13C chemical shifts of the methyl and methylene carbons in the corresponding hydrocarbons (RCH3 or R'CH,R2); see Eqns (1)5 (2); respectively. S170 = 3.83 S13C-49.3 r = 0.979, s = 2.6, n = 22 Sl7O= 2.96 6I3C-93.6 r = 0.983, s = 1.7, n = 31…”