Seven azatropones, -equivalent heterocyclic congeners of tropone, have been prepared and characterized. Thus treatment of 4,4,6,and 3,4,6, with triethyloxonium fluoborate afforded respectively , 7-ethoxy-2,5-dimethyl-4ff-azepin-4-one (19), S-ethoxy-4,6,7-trimethyl-2ff-azepin-2-one (22), and 5-ethoxy-3,4,6,7-tetramethyl-2H-azepm-2-one (28). With the same reagent, lff-benz[/]azepine-2,5-dione ( 16) and 5ff-morphanthridine-6,11-dione (18) gave 2-ethoxy-5flrbenz[flazepin-5-one (34) and ll-ethoxybenz[c]cyclohexadienyl[5,6-/]-2íí-azepin-2-one (42), respectively. Trimethyloxonium fluoborate also converted 12 and 14 to their respective azatropones, 5-methoxy-4,6,7-trimethyl-( 26) and 5-methoxy-3,4,6,7-tetramethyl-2H-azepin-2-one (31). Proof of structure of 4-azatropones, 19 and 34, and 2-azatropones, 22, 26, 28, 31, and 42, is provided and mechanisms for their formation are suggested. Nmr data show no evidence of a ring current in any of these azatropones, and the ease with which