In an investigation of methylene replacement by small heteroatom insertions the crystal structures of N,Ndioctadecylamine, (C 18 H 37 ) 2 NH, and dihexadecyl ether, (C 16 H 33 ) 2 O, were determined by electron crystallography and infrared spectroscopy. Crystals of the amine, epitaxially oriented on naphthalene, are characteristic of the analogous odd-chain n-paraffin in its high-energy orthorhombic B-polymorph. Cell constants are a ) 7.52-(2), b ) 5.04(1), and c/2 ) 50.0(4) Å and the extinction rules for the 0,k,l reflections (k + l ) 2n + 1) are consistent with the space group A2 1 am. Carbon and nitrogen coordinates in a paraffin-like model match observed data reasonably well (R ) 0.22). A binary phase diagram reveals that the secondary amine is continuously cosoluble with the n-paraffin of the same chain length (n-C 37 H 76 ). The ether, crystallized on benzoic acid, is polymorphic. The major monoclinic form, which forms a eutectic solid with n-C 33 H 68 , crystallizes in space group Aa with a ≈ 5.59, b ≈ 7.40, and c ) 88.66 Å and ) 116.2°. Its projected crystal structure includes a twisted chain conformation in an oblique layer (R ) 0.26). The orthorhombic form in space group A2 1 am (c/2 ) 45.1 Å) resembles the odd-chain paraffin and may be continuously co-soluble with it.