The 13C KMR spectra of cis-decahydroquinoline, its two epimeric 3-, 6-, and 8-methyl, as well as its 10-methyl, 3cu,10-, 3P,lCI-, and 8a,lO-dimethyl homologues and the corresponding N-methyl compounds were recorded. Configurational and conformational assignments have been made on the basis of 13C and lH NMR spectra. The parent, 10-methyl, 6P-methyl, and @-methyl compounds are conformationally heterogeneous; conformational equilibria were determined by low-temperature I3C NMR spectroscopy. Signals in the 13C spectra were assigned on the basis of those of the parent compounds3a-c with the help of parameters previously established2 in the trans-decahydroquinoline series. The previously reported2 upfield shift due, formally, to an antiperiplanar lone pair on nitrogen bearing alkyl [anti-:N(Me)-C-C] as well as the downfield shift caused by steric compression of syn-axial methyl groups were confirmed. Groups to which syn-axial substituents are attached are also shifted downfield. Shift parameters of the type introduced by Grant and c o -w o r k e r~~.~~~ are tabulated for the cis-decahydroquinoline series. The I3C spectra of A1~9-octahydroquinoline and several of its methyl homologues have been recorded. Conformational equilibria in variously substituted cis-decahydroquinolines are discussed.In a previous paper2 we have discussed the 13C NMR spectra of a number of methyl-substituted trans-decahydroquinolines. Here we report the spectra of 11 cis-decahydroquinolines, 1-11 (R = H), and of the corresponding Nmethyl homologues lm-1 l m (R = CH3). The spectra of the parent compounds 1 and l m have already been published by Booth and Griffiths3 and are included for completeness only; the remaining spectra are R, 1-11, R = H lm-llm, R = CH, 1, R,-R, = H 2, R , , R,, R,-R, = H ; R, = CH, (lO-CH,) 3, R , , R,-R, = H R, = CH, (3a-CH3) 4, R,-R, = H; R , = CH, (3P-CH3) 5, R,-R,, R,, R, = H ; R , = CH, (6U-CH,) 6, R,-R,, R,-R, = H ; R, = CH, (6P-CH3) 7, R,-R, = H ; R, = CH, (~cY-CH,) 8 , R,-R,, R, = H ; R, = CH, (8P-CH3) 9, R , , R , , R,-R, = H ; R, = R, = CH, (8a, 10-di-CH,) 10, R , , R,-R, = H ; R, = R, = CH, ( 3 a , 10-di-CH,) 11, R,, R,-R, = H ; R , = R, = CH, (3P, 10-di-CH,)In Table I are summarized all pertinent chemical shifts for compounds 1-11, in Table I1 those for lm-llm. The spectra were first recorded a t 30 "C but because a number of signals for the conformational1.y heterogeneous compounds 1,2,6, and 8 and their N-methyl analogues lm, 2m, 6m, and 8m were exchange-broadened at that temperature, their spectra were also recorded a t 55 "C or (in the case of 1) 65 "C. At these temperatures exchange was fast enough to lead to sharpening of all the signals. At low temperatures (-68 OC) the spectra of the eight conformatiionally heterogeneous compounds decoalesced into two sets of lines in each case (Tables I and 11) which could be assigned to the two contributing conformations. The spectra of the other 14 compounds did not change appreciably upon cooling (except for a slight temperature dependence of the chlemical shifts)...