The proton-decoupled, carbon-13 magnetic resonance (cmr) data have been determined for all of the five possible perhydroanthracene structural isomers and for four of the six possible perhydrophenanthrene compounds. The former are of known configuration, but the latter are unidentified in the chemical literature prior to the present work. The data are initially assigned to specific carbon positions using a parameter set derived from the methyldecalins. The calculated spectra are then refined by least-squares, regression analysis. New chemical shift parameters associated with boat and skew pentane conformations are discussed.he first tetradecahydroanthracene (or perhydroanthracene, abbreviated for convenience to PHA) isomer was synthesized about the turn of the century.2-4 It was soon recognized that other geometric isomers were possible6 and as many as 20 were suggested.6 Fries and Schilling ultimately delineated the correct number as being five,7 the last of which was synthesized only in recent years.8 Many workers contributed to the synthesis and characterization of the several isomers.7•9-14 X-Ray16 and electron diffraction16•17 work