“…Compounds 4 were found to exhibit at the NMR time scale E, Z-conformational equilibrium at the exocyclic C, N bond. Surprisingly, no experimental evidence for such equilibrium was provided by earlier reports on N-4,6-triphenylpyran 2-imine (4, R = R' = Ph) [2][3][4][5] or other pyran 2-imines 6,7 and benzoannelated analogs [8][9][10][11][12][13] . By contrast, the hindered rotation around C,N double bond in Naryl-2,6-dimethyl-4H-pyran-4-imines 5 and related iminium salts 6, 7 (Scheme 2) had been extensively investigated by 1 H, 13 C and 15 N NMR in the early eighties.…”