Ab initio nuclear magnetic shielding surfaces were obtained for all nu
clei for CH3F, CH3Cl and CH3Br in terms of curvilinear coordinates usi
ng an SCF-CHF/LORG procedure and moderately large basis sets to overco
me the gauge dependence problem. The shielding surfaces for C, F, Cl a
nd Br are complete up to second order and can be employed to calculate
isotope and temperature effects in CH3X molecules, X = F, Cl, Br.