Cyclic ring systems carbon-13 chemical shifts

Several trends have emerged in the extensive carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy data that have been accumulated for sulfones and sulfoxides. Based on many studies of cyclic systems—particularly five- and six-membered ring sulfur compounds—these trends were shown to generally apply equally to both the cyclic and acyclic systems . Thus (a) oxidation of a sulfide to a sulfone results in a 20-25 ppm downfield chemical shift for sp -hybridized a-carbon atoms and 4-9 ppm upfield shift for / -carbons , and (b) there is very little difference between the chemical shifts of a-carbon atoms of sulfones and sulfoxides despite the difference in the inductive effects of these two functional groups . A difference is observed, however, in the H chemical shift of related cyclic sulfoxides and sulfones . 

---