@article { ISI:000342843800007, title = {NMR of solutes in nematic and smectic A liquid crystals: the anisotropic intermolecular potential}, journal = {MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY}, volume = {52}, number = {10, SI}, year = {2014}, month = {OCT}, pages = {570-580}, abstract = {Orientational order parameters determined from H-1 NMR spectroscopy of solutes in liquid crystals that form both nematic and smectic A phases are used to determine the solute smectic A order parameters and the smectic-nematic coupling term. For the analysis, it is necessary to know the nematic part of the potential in the smectic A phase: various ways of extrapolating parameters from the nematic phase to the smectic phase are explored. Copyright (c) 2014 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.}, issn = {0749-1581}, doi = {10.1002/mrc.4113}, author = {Burnell, E. Elliott and Dong, Ronald Y. and Weber, Adrian C. J. and Yethiraj, Anand} }