Solid-state C P W A S 'P NMR spectra were measured for the following unsaturated phosphorusnitroge-ulfur ring systems: l,S-R,P,N,S, (R = Me, Et, Ph), l,S-Ph,P,N,S,Ph,, Ph,PN,S,NPPh, and Ph,PN,S,. The ¡so-tropic solid-state shifts correlate well with the corresponding shifts in solution, the largest difference being 9.0 ppm, indicating that there are no phase-dependent structural features. Analysis of the principal elements of the shielding tensor by the spinning side band method showed that one of these elements is primarily responsible for the anomalousiy iow-field isotropic chernical shifts of 1,5-R,P,N,Sz , but no correlation was found between this individual tensor component and any of the structural parameters of these folded eight-membered rings. Two isotropic shifts were observed for the crystallographically inequivalent phosphorus atoms of 1,5-Et,PZN,S2 , hut the individual 31P isotropic shifts of 1,s-Me,P,N,S2 were not resolved.