The condensation products of 2-aminoethanol or 3-aminopropanol (bearing an alkyl substituent on the carbon adjacent to the nitrogen) with substituted benzaldehydes proved to exist in CDCl 3 at 300 K as threecomponent tautomeric mixtures of the diastereomeric five-or six-membered 1,3-O,N-heterocyclic ring forms and the corresponding imines. For each equilibrium, the electronic effects of the 2-aryl substituents were characterized by the Hammett equation. The steric effects of the alkyl groups could be described by Hansch-type equations for the equilibria involving oxazolidine ring forms. While the alkyl substituents did not cause any significant effect on the ring cis-chain and the ring trans-chain equilibria for tetrahydro-1,3-oxazines, increasing bulk of the 4-alkyl group increased the stability of the cyclic tautomers for the analogous oxazolidines.