Syed M. A. Hashmi, Mohammed I. M. Wazeer, M. Sakhawat Hussain, Joseph H. Reibenspies, Herman P. Perzanowski and Sk. Asrof Ali
The stereochemistry of the preferred conformers of several 3-acyloxy-1,3-oxazinanes has been established by NMR spectroscopy. A strong anomeric effect stabilizes the conformation having an equatorial orientation of the lone pair on nitrogen. A nitrogen inversion process was found to be the rate-limiting process in the conformational equilibria. The range of ΔG
‡ values was found to be 60–71 kJ mol–1. Solid state structures as determined by X-ray diffraction confirm the findings of the NMR study.