Conformational equilibrium and orientational ordering:1H‐nuclear magnetic resonance of butane in a nematic liquid crystal

In this study we use multiple‐quantum ¹H‐NMR spectroscopy to study butane, the simplest flexible alkane, dissolved in a nematic solvent. An an...

James，M.，Polson，... - 《Journal of Chemical Physics》

A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Approach to Determining Order Parameters of Solutes in Liquid Crystals from 13C NMR Data

A combined theoretical and experimental approach to determining order parameters of solutes in liquid crystals from C-13 NMR data[J].The journal of ...

C Benzi，M Cossi，V Barone，... - 《Journal of Physical Chemistry B》

Structure of Water and Hydrophobic Bonding in Proteins. II. Model for the Thermodynamic Properties of Aqueous Solutions of Hydrocarbons

The model proposed in the preceding paper for the theoretical derivation of the thermodynamic parameters of liquid water is extended to a treatment of the ...

G Ne?Methy，HA Scheraga - 《Journal of Chemical Physics》

Molecular solutes in nematic liquid crystals: Orientational order and electric field gradients

The difference between liquid-crystal and gas-phase values for the nuclear quadrupole coupling constant in D 2 and HD is used to obtain the mean electric field gradient in various liquid crystals. Order parameters for small molecules dis...

GN Patey，EE Burnell，JG Snijders，... - 《Chemical Physics Letters》

Size and shape effects on the orientation of rigid molecules in nematic liquid crystals

Order parameters, as measured from N.M.R. experiments, are reported for a series of small rigid molecules dissolved in the liquid crystals N-(p-ethoxybenzylidene)-p芒聙虏-n-butylaniline, Merck ZLI 1132, and a 55 wt per cent 1132 mixture ...

Van der Est, A.J.，Kok, M.Y.，Burnell, E.E. - 《Molecular Physics》

Anisotropic short range potentials for solutes in nematic liquid crystals

experimental order parameters of a collection of 46 molecules dissolved in a special mixture where the ordering is dominated by the size and shape potential...

DS Zimmerman，EE Burnell - 《Molecular Physics》

Solvent smectic order parameters from solute nematic order parameters

In liquid crystals, while the second and fourth rank orientational order parameters characterizing a nematic phase can be experimentally determined via sev...

G Celebre，G Cinacchi，G De Luca - 《Journal of Chemical Physics》

Determination of orientational order parameters in liquid crystals from temperature-dependent 13C NMR experiments

We have shown that natural abundance 13C NMR of solutes in liquid crystals may be used to obtain order parameters from a series of temperature-dependent measurements even with limited information on the carbon shift tensors. A procedure ...

A Hagemeyer，R Tarroni，C Zannoni - 《Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions》

NMR and molecular structure of partially oriented mono and para methyl- and chlorobenzenes dissolved in nematic liquid crystals

Spectral parameters, order parameters, and structural parameters, including the vibrationally corrected ralpha structure of the partially oriented solutes ...

RT Syvitski，EE Burnell - 《Canadian Journal of Chemistry》