Saturated amine oxides: part 10. hydroacridines: part 32. linear 17O/13C and 13C/13C chemical shift correlations between saturated azaheterocyclic N‐methylamine N‐oxides,and the methiodides of their parent amines

Two kinds of good linear correlations were found between the chemical shifts of saturated six‐membered azaheterocyclic N‐methylamine N‐oxides and the chemical shifts of the methiodides of their parent amines. One of the correlations occurs between the ¹⁷O chemical shift of the N⁺―O^– oxygen in the N‐oxides and the ¹³C chemical shift of the N⁺―CH₃ methyl group analogously situated in the appropriate methiodide (r = 0.9778). This correlation enables unambiguous configuration assignment of the N⁺―O^– bond, even if the experimentally observed ¹⁷O chemical shift of only one N‐epimer is available, provided the ¹³C chemical shifts of both N⁺―CH₃ groups in the methiodide are known and assigned; furthermore, it can be used also for the estimation of ¹⁷O chemical shifts of the N⁺―O^– oxygens in N‐epimeric pairs of N‐oxides, for which observed ¹⁷O data hardly become available. The second correlation is observed between the ¹³C chemical shift of the N⁺―CH₃ methyl group in the N‐oxides and the ¹³C chemical shift of the N⁺―CH₃ methyl group analogously situated in the appropriate methiodide (r = 0.9785). It can be used for safe configuration assignment of the N⁺―CH₃ group and, indirectly, also of the N⁺―O^– bond in an amine N‐oxide, even if no ¹⁷O NMR data, and the ¹³C chemical shift of only one N‐epimer is available. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.