“…1 The replacement of a hydrogen by a methyl group at various positions in organic compounds containing an oxygen atom induces 17 O chemical shift perturbations 2 -5 which have been interpreted in terms of the substituent chemical shifts (SCS), a concept 6 widely used in 13 C NMR. Despite the abundance of 17 O NMR data for aliphatic compounds such as ethers, 1,3,7,8 alcohols, 1,2,7,8 alkyl vinyl ethers, 1,9 alkyl phenyl ethers, 1,9 acetals 1,8 and esters 1,8,10 in the literature, little work has been devoted to the systematic determination of substituent oxygen chemical shifts in organic compounds. 4,11 -13 The use of empirical relationships in NMR is extremely useful for the structural determination of unknown compounds and their conformational analysis.…”