A series of α‐oxo‐iminoxyls was obtained by PbO2 oxidation of 4‐oximinoisoxazol‐5(4H)‐ones, 4‐oximinopyrazol‐5(4H)‐ones, and 1‐phenyl‐4‐oximino‐1,2,3‐triazol‐5(4H)‐one and characterized by electron spin resonance spectroscopy in conjunction with DFT calculations of structures, energies, and hyperfine coupling constants. The iminoxyls are σ‐radicals existing largely in the Z configuration with respect to the C=O group, but minor amounts of the E isomers were observable in several cases. Couplings of the free‐radical electron with N1, N2, N3, C4 and C5 ring nuclei as well as the imine nitrogen N6 were observed, and some isomers were also observed to couple with a CH3 group in position 3 and with the ortho‐H atoms of an aryl group in position 3. The lower energies of the Z isomers relative to the E isomers can be ascribed to a stabilizing interaction between a singly occupied orbital on the oxime oxygen and a lone pair orbital on the carbonyl oxygen.