The structures of compounds I! I-VI were verified spectroscopically. In the IR spectra of III and IV, for substances in the crystalline state the most characteristic features are the absorption bands of the valence oscillations of the cyanogroups at 2182-2204 cm-:, and also the band~ CO of the acetyl group, the latter band being reduced in the dihydropyridines III to 1600- 1663 cm-:(relative to its position for the tetrahydropyridines IV: 1686-1704 cm-1), which is ...