The 2H/1H isotope effect on l3C nmr chemical shifts, "A, n being the number of intervening bonds between 'H and I3C nuclei, in toluene-a-d3 is solvent dependent. For example, ' A ranges from 817ppb in CD30H to 869ppb in acetone-d6 solutions, a positive number indicating increased shielding in the deuterated species. 'A is linearly dependent on a function of the refractive index, n~, of the solvent, allowing extrapolation to n~ = 1. The hyperconjugative model, in which the C-D bond is a poorer electron donor to the aromatic system than is a C-H bond, is tested for the substituents CHID, CHD2, CD3, CHDCH3, CD2CH3, CD(CH3)2, C6H5CHD, and (C6H5)2CD. For these substituents, the negative 5A is linearly related to the expectation value of sin2 0; 0 is the angle by which the C-D bond twists out of the benzene plane. The model fails quantitatively for C6H5CD2X (X = C1, COOH, CN, OH). For X = OH, very large negative 5A and 3A values are observed. "A is also reported for 4-ethyltoluene-a-d3 and benzaldehyde-a-dl. For the latter, all "A values are positive other than 5A, which vanishes in acetone-d6 solution.