“…In contrast to the bicyclic azocine 9, this new compound was shown by NMR in various solvents (CDCl 3 , CD 3 OD, DMSO-d 6 ) to be a 6:4 mixture of two conformers. Indeed, two singlets for the signal of H-2 at 7.77 and 7.90 ppm were observed while the 13 It is well known 25 that the azocine ring possesses mostly a crown conformation, but there are also boatchair, chair-chair, and boat-boat conformations. In particular, this was not found in the related bicyclic derivative 9 which combines a tetrahydoazocine core and a fused five-membered oxazolidine ring, assigning a conformationally restricted framework.…”