Carbon‐13 NMR studies of nitrogen compounds. I—substituent effects of amino, acetamido, diacetamido, ammonium and trimethylammonium groups

Abstract 13 C NMR chemical shifts are reported for several alkyl or aryl amines, acetamides, diacetamides and ammonium and trimethylammonium salts. Substituent effects, determined with respect to chemical shifts of amino derivatives, are rationalized in terms of γ effects, steric interactions and for benzene derivatives, in terms of competition between inductive (σ 1 ) and resonance (σ R ) effects. These perturbations can be used to assign chemical shifts of complex structures and to study certain chemical processes.