Syntheses and 13C-NMR spectra of bicyclo[3.3.1]nonanes bearing substituents at C-1 (X = F, Cl, Br, J, OR) and C-3 (X = exo Cl, Br, OR; X = endo COOR, CH 3, OR) are described. The functional C α shifts are found to show the known dependence on the electron withdrawing effect of heterosubstituents, including the 1-jodo compound; there is, however, no weakening attenuation effect with tertiary compounds, as often implied, but rather substituent effects which are up to 25 ppm higher than observed with the corresponding secondary derivatives The β carbon shieldings of all compounds can be represented as a function of the square electric field effect; the flattening of the cyclohexane rings in the 1- and 3-exo-compounds however are resulting in a change of the linear electric field effects at C α, and even more at C γ. The deshielding of γ carbons in antipenplanar X-C α-C β-C γ conformations is not restricted to structures bearing X on a bridgehead, it can be rationalized on the basis of through space bond polarization by the C α-X dipoles (linear field effects). The very small upfield shifts generated by 3-exo-hetero-substituents at the C-7 position put an upper limit for pure through space long range shielding effects in 13C-NMR spectroscopy. With the exception of the 3-endo compounds the 13C shifts (as well as 13C- 19F couplings) of all compounds indicate a flattened double chair conformation CC The parameters found for the endo-3-derivatives establish the predominance of boat chair forms. Lanthanide induced shifts show the 3-endo substituent to rest at the boat part of the molecule. Although the shifts of the basic BC form for the unsubstituted hydrocarbon cannot be measured directly, they can be obtained by subtraction of corresponding substituent effects. Low temperature measurements establish the absence of higher populations of CC forms; the comparison of shift temperature gradients however indicates the partition of some CC conformer in the case of the endo-3-methoxy compound.