The results of non empirical quantum-chemical calculations using the RHF/6-31G(d) and MP2/6-31G(d) methods do not agree with proposals for the axial position of the H atom on the N atom in the piperidine molecule. According to calculations for the N-methylpiperidine molecule and its chloro-substituted derivatives an equatorially placed methyl group is energetically more favored than an axial. The axial C-Cl and C-H bonds in these molecules are longer than the equatorial. The 35 Cl NQR frequencies for the axial Cl atoms are lower than the equatorial. The 35 Cl NQR frequency of the axial chlorine atom in 2-chloro-1-methylpiperidine is anomalously low. This is chiefly due to the high population density of its p σ -orbital and this is a result of the polarization of the C-Cl bond via the N atom unshared electron pair directly through the field. The effect of a similar unshared electron pair on the parameters of the C-Cl bond in the ClCH 2 NH 2 molecule has been studied by the RHF/6-31(g) method for different angles of rotation of the ClCH 2 group around the C-N bond.Keywords: N-methylpiperidine and its chloro-substituted derivatives, piperidine, axial and equatorial atoms, quantum-chemical calculations, 35 Cl NQR frequencies.As a rule, substituted piperidines exist in a chair form (e.g. see [1]). There is conflicting data regarding the relative orientation of a substituent on the nitrogen atom and in the ring. NMR Data is considered to be (e.g. see [1]) the most reliable for the case of R = H and this points to an axial position for the hydrogen atom (Form 1). For R = alkyl all available data indicates an equatorial position for an alkyl group (Form 2).For a substituent in the ring of substituted piperidines as well as in substituted cyclohexanes the generally more favored orientation is an equatorial position. However, in 2-substituted piperidines, as in 2-substituted tetrahydropyrans, 1,4-dioxanes, cyclohexanones, etc, an electron-acceptor substituent usually occupies an axial position (e.g. see [1]). The distribution of the electron density in these 2-substituted oxygen containing compounds are significantly different and have a character reverse to that observed for the axial and equatorial atoms found in other ring positions (e.g. see [2][3][4][5][6]).The aim of our work is to examine by nonempirical, quantum-chemical methods the conformational features of substituted piperidines, the effect of the nitrogen atom on the electron densities of the Cl and H atoms in variously substituted chloro N-methylpiperidines, and also to study the 35 Cl NQR parameters in the latter. For this task we carried out quantum-chemical calculations of the molecular forms 1-10 via full optimization of their geometry by the Hartree-Fock method on a 6-31G(d) split valence basis using the Gaussian 94W program [7].