The nuclear magnetic resonance of heterocyclic compounds related to anthracene

The NMR spectra of a series of heterocyclic compounds analogous to anthracene have been investigated at 220 and 60 MHz. Correlations have been made with molecular geometry and parameters calculated from semi-empirical MO theory. For planar molecules, the chemical shift of the proton ortho to the heteroatom is linear with respect to the electron density on the heteroatom, but otherwise chemical shifts are independent of electron density. Planarity of the molecules is also a factor in some of the coupling constants.