A number of benzylsilanes have been synthesised and characterised, and the structural features of certain of these compounds are such that the C Si bond is constrained to varying degrees to the nodal plane of the aromatic system. The proton-decoupled, natural-abundance 13 C NMR spectra of these compounds have been obtained and essentially completely assigned on the basis of signal intensities, chemical shifts, selective deuteration and (in some cases) the ...