gives two signals with the aa' assignment. The protons of the CH2 group in ( 3 ) have orientations between axial and equatorial, namely the positions bb' andf', respectively. We found only a small degree of splitting for this group. The protons are on the border of the plane and the out-of-plane regions, i.e. the shielding between 6 and 6' is about the same, as isthat between f andf'. Sincetheinfluenceof dd'presumably is small, owing to the larger distance from the carbonyl bond, averaging of the effects of all positions a-f and a'-f' on the anisotropy shows that freely rotating methyl groups give signals corresponding to the out-of-plane region.I n (4) the freely rotating CH: group shows two signals corresponding to the ou-tof-plane region, the CH group signal pair corresponding to the plane region. This shows that in (4) a conformation in which the C H proton lies in the plane of the amide group is slightly preferred. Our assignment for the plane region agrees with theoretical calculations [61, which are in contradiction to the assignment for freely rotating methyl groups. Our assignments were made by the benzene dilution method, double resonance, and for (4) by F-C-C-N-C-H long-range coupling, to which cis > trans applies. An independent assignment follows from compound (5) with a fixed amide
CONFERENCE REPORTSgroup, for which we found T = 6.4 for HI and T = 5.4 for H2. The isopropyl group in (5) has the same orientation as in (4). Comparison of amides with thioamides in the spectra of N,N-dimethylacetamide and N,N-dimethylthioacetamide by long-range coupling and the benzene dilution method shows their magnetic anisotropies to be opposite. In thioamides the plane region evidently has a larger cone of influence, so that the assignment of the freely rotating methyl group coincides with that of the plane region. Received: August 8th, 1966 [Z 307 I€] Germafi version: Angew. Chem. 78, 943 (1966)