Eclipsed ground-state conformations of the tert-butyl-X bond in N-tert-butoxy- and N-neopentyl-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine. X-ray crystal structure determinations and molecular mechanics calculations

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/ja00062a012

X-ray crystallographic studies of derivatives of N-methoxy- and N-tert-butoxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine show that as expected the N-O bond is staggered with respect to the C-H bonds of the methoxy group in the former case, yet it eclipses a C-methyl b