trans-1,4,4-Trideuteriocyclohexene dichloride, dibromide, and diiodide and the 1,4,4-trideuterio-cis-and trans-1,2-cyclohexanediols together with their 0-acetyl, 0-tosyl, and O-isopropylidene derivatives were synthesized. Their nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectral parameters were obtained with a spectrometer operating a t 100 h1c.p.s. and employing double irradiation to establish the chemical shifts and the signs of the coupling constants. The interpretation of the data according to expectations based on the Karplus relationship, for dihedral angles and coupling constants, support the conformational equilibria assigned t o the tuans-dichloride and trans-dlbromide of cyclohexene on the basis of dipole moment measurements (previously published results). The results indicate that trans-cyclohexene diiodide exists t o about 84yo in the diaxial conformation. I11 the case of the 1,2-cis-disubstituted cyclohexanes, the occurrence of the signal for the 3-hydrogen in trans relation t o the 2-hydrogen a t loxver field than its geminal 3-hydrogen is assigned to the deshielding influence on the 3-hydrogen when in axial orientation by a n opposing axial oxygen a t the 1-position. Support for this contention was obtained by determination of the chemical shifts of the geminal hydrogens a t the 3-and 5-positions of the cis-and trans-4-t-butyl-2,2,6,6-tetradeuterio-1-methylcyclohexanols. The conformational equilibria indicated for the l,2-diol, l,2-diacetox), and 1,2-ditosyloxy trans derivatives of 1,4,4-trideuteriocyclohexane by N h l R parameters obtained from the spectrum of the 0-isopropylidene derivatives of the tuans-diol allowed conclusions regarding the non-bonded interaction energies involved. The Karplus relation had to be adjusted to the form, J+ = 14.7 cosZ@ -0.2 (0'-4-90") and J+ = 11.2 cos24 -0.2 (90"-4-18O0), t o accommodate the results. Solvent effects on conformation are noted. Also, the investigation provided further evidence for the opposite signs of the coupling constants for geminal and vicinal hydrogens. A consideration of the chemical shifts observed for a variety of derivatives of cyclohexanol appears to indicate that intramolecular shielding effects are better accounted for on the basis of neighboring atomic groupings than on the basis of individual chemical bonds.Attempts have been made previously to study-the conformational equilibria of the trans-cyclohexene dihalides in benzene solution by the measurement of dipole moments (1) and by observation of the chemical shifts of protons adjacent to the halogen atoms (2). Both of these methods suffer from disadvantages; in the first, it is impossible t o estimate the molecular dipole in the diaxial conformation, i.e. of allowing for dipolar contributions from the cyclohexane skeleton (3). The second method requires the assumption that the usual orientational effects on chemical shifts apply (4,5). This latter assumption, as it transpired, proved to be justified in the case of the trans-dihalides but could not have been foreseen and would not hav...