~~ ~'H and 13C NMR spectra have been recorded for a series of 1.3-dioxanes, 2-0x0-I ,3,2-dioxathianes, 1,3,2-dioxaphosphorinanes and 2-thioxo-l,3,2-dioxaphosphorinanes, which are held in a chair conformation. In all of them, the spectral parameters are compatible with the equatorial C(5)-H reversed Perlin Effect), and 3JH(4)H(5es) < 3JH(4qq)H( 5al)]. This is the reverse of what IS usually observed in cyclohexanes, or at the 2-position in tetrahydropyrans, where the sequence is ascribed to an n-+cT* (anomeric) interaction between the or-oxygen and the axial C(5)-H bond. It is suggested that this reversal may be due to an n--+c* (homoanomeric) interaction between the P-oxygen and the equatorial C( 5)-H bond, through a W-arrangement of orbitals. This interpretation is supported by ab initio 6-31 G" calculations on the 1,3-dioxane molecule, which show that the equatorial C( 5)-H bond is weaker and longer than the axial C( 5)-H bond.bond being weaker and longer than the axial C( 5)-H bond [e.g. 1JC(5)H(5eq) < lJ9( 5)"(5ax) (a Chemical shifts and coupling constants in 'H and 13C NMR spectra have been used extensively for determining the axial/equatorial location of protons and substituents in cyclohexane and heterocyclohexanes. ' In cyclohexanes, an equatorial proton shows a chemical shift 0.1-0.7 ppm downfield of an axial proton. Values of 3JH(ax)H(ax) are typically 8-10 Hz, and of 3JH(ax)H(eq) and 3JH(eq)H(eq) are 2-3 Hz, and in cyclohexane, lJCH(ax) is 122.4 Hz, less than lJCH(eq) which is 126.4 H z . ~ In methylcyclohexanes, an axial methyl group (6, 17.5-18.9) is always upfield of an equatorial one (6, 23).3Similar rules are accepted to apply to heterocyclohexanes containing first row atoms.4-Thus in P-D-glucopyranose, the axial proton at C(l) shows lJCH(ax) 160 Hz, and in a-Dglucopyranose the corresponding equatorial proton shows lJCH(eq) 169 H z 8 This order of the one-bond coupling constants
( ' J C H ( ~~) < ' J c H ( ~~) )which was first described by Perlin and Casu in 1969,' has been referred to by Wolfe' as the Perlin effect. At the I-position in pyranoses, it has been ascribed to the anomeric interaction l o between the axially directed nonbonding electron pair on oxygen and the lJCH(eq) at all positions around the ring; this has been suggested to result from a dominant