Cyclic β,β‐difluoro‐carbonyl compounds have a venerable history as drug discovery leads, but limitations in the synthesis arsenal continue to impede chemical space exploration. This challenge is particularly acute in the arena of fluorinated medium rings where installing the difluoromethylene unit subtly alters the ring conformation by expanding the internal angle (∠C−CF2−C>∠C−CH2−C): this provides a handle to modulate physicochemistry (e.g. p
N.m.r. parameters for 55 compounds incorporating exocyclic groups were obtained. In unstrained structures the relative (as well as the absolute) magnitudes of transoid and cisoid allylic coupling constants depend on the magnitudes of the dihedral angles but additional effects were also identified. The magnitudes of geminal coupling constants between the protons of exocyclic methylene groups and of homoallylic coupling constants involving exocyclic ethylidene and isopropylidene groups vary systematically with ring size.