“…This study is focused on assigning 1 H chemical shifts and coupling constants and 13 C chemical shifts for N ‐Methyl derivatives of sparteine and isosparteine, both of which have been fully characterized by X‐ray crystallography. X‐ray analysis of ( N ‐Methyl)‐(−)‐sparteinium iodide ( 3 ) revealed a chair‐chair‐boat‐chair conformation (Figure ), and its 1 H and 13 C NMR chemical shift assignments were reported by Duddeck and coworkers in 1995 . An X‐ray analysis of ( N ‐Methyl)‐(α)‐isosparteinium iodide ( 4 ) showed an all‐chair conformation in which the N‐CH 3 group is positioned in close proximity to the transannular nitrogen lone pair, resulting in a + NCH•••N hydrogen bond .…”