Carbon-13 NMR spectra of[
cis-2-(
N,
N-dimethylamino)cyclopentyl]trimethylammoniumiodide (
4a) andtriflate (
4b) in acetone-
d6 and inCD
3NO
2 show inversion of the amine withrotation about the ring-N bond to beunusually slow with
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and
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(
4b inacetone-
d6) of 17 kcal/mol and 14 eu, similar
tothe values for
cis-2-
tert-butyl-1-(
N,
N-dimethylamino)cyclopentane(
3) in Et
2O-
d10 of 16kcal/mol and 17 eu, indicating that steric and notelectrostatic interactions are responsible for the slow rates. Inaddition, the N
+ methyls of
4a and
4b, which aremagnetically nonequivalent by
13C NMR at low temperatures,undergo signal averaging with increasing temperature,the result of rotation dynamics around the ring-N
+bonds giving for
4b in acetone-
d6
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and
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,respectively,of 7.2 kcal/mol and -9 eu. Similar values are found for
tert-butyl rotation in
3 inEt
2O-
d10. Around roomtemperaturefor
4a and
4b,
1J(
14N,
13C) is resolvedand found to be ca. 3.6 Hz. With decreasing temperature, thiscoupling isaveraged by progressively faster
14N electric quadrupoleinduced relaxation. Line shape analysis of the
13CNMRspectra shows
Ea for the correlation time to be2-2.7 kcal/mol. X-ray crystallography of
4b and(
cis-2-
tert-butylcyclopentyl)trimethylammonium triflate (
7) showsthe rings to adopt the half-chair structure with vicinalsubstituents located at the puckered carbons. In
4b,the N
+Me
3 group is pseudoequatorial withthe NMe
2 grouppseudoaxial; whereas, in
7, the
tert-butyl groupis pseudoequatorial with the N
+Me
3 grouppseudoaxial. Interestingcorrelations are noted of
13C NMR shifts of individualmethyls with their crystallographic structuralassignments.