Effects of orientaltional order in solution thermodynamics: mixtures containing a liquid crystal
Abstract
The thermodynamic properties, nematic order parameters and nematic–isotropic transition temperatures of p-methoxybenzylidene-p-n-butylaniline (MBBA)–alkane systems are highly sensitive to the alkane shape and indicate that MBBA molecules correlate their orientations with normal, but not with highly branched isomers.