@inbook {doi:10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1477,
	title = {Molecular Hydrogens Dissolved in Liquid Crystals},
	booktitle = {eMagRes},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {901-912},
	publisher = {American Cancer Society},
	organization = {American Cancer Society},
	abstract = {Abstract The NMR spectra of molecular hydrogen isotopologs dissolved and orientationally ordered in nematic liquid-crystal solvents provide a wealth of information. Because they are quantum rotors, the various isotopologs H 2 , D 2 , T 2 , HD, HT, and DT have different order parameters, with larger internuclear distance having smaller order parameter. The signs and magnitudes of the order parameters are liquid-crystal dependent, this being a direct result of the dominant anisotropic intermolecular interaction being that between the solute quadrupole moment and the mean liquid-crystal electric-field gradient (EFG) felt by the solute. Thus, the mixing of different liquid crystals can produce a solvent where molecular hydrogen feels a zero EFG, called a magic mixture. The remaining, dominant anisotropic interaction (for solutes larger than hydrogen) in these magic mixtures involves short-range anisotropic forces that depend on solute size and shape. Studies involving the very symmetrical methane H, D, and T isotopologs point out the important effect on dipolar couplings of molecular vibrations and interactions between molecular vibration and reorientation, effects which make it impossible to utilize fully the high accuracy with which dipolar couplings in general can be measured.},
	keywords = {ANISOTROPIC, electric field gradient, HYDROGEN, liquid crystal, METHANE, NMR, order parameter, ordered liquids, ORIENTATION, VIBRATIONS},
	isbn = {9780470034590},
	doi = {10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1477},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1477},
	author = {Burnell, E. Elliott and de Lange, Cornelis A.}
}
@article {2674,
	title = {Competitive Adsorption of Toluene and n-Alkanes at Binary Solution/Silica Interfaces},
	journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry C},
	volume = {113},
	number = {47},
	year = {2009},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 520FMTimes Cited: 2Cited Reference Count: 48Yang, Zheng Li, Qifeng Hua, Rui Gray, Murray R. Chou, Keng C.},
	month = {Nov},
	pages = {20355-20359},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {The competitive adsorption of toluene and n-alkanes at binary solution/silica interfaces was studied at room temperature using IR-visible sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy. The Surface coverage of toluene for toluene-pentane, toluene-heptane, and toluene-tetradecane mixtures was measured over the complete mole fraction range from 0 to 1. The competitive adsorption process was reversible, and the toluene coverage only depended oil the bulk mole fraction, not on the history of the system. The estimated molar adsorption free energy of toluene is 3.4 +/- 0.3, 1.8 +/- 0.3, and 0.84 +/- 0.3 kJ/mol higher than pentane, heptane, and tetradecane, respectively. Overall, toluene competes favorably on silica, and the molar adsorption free energy of alkanes increases as the chain length increases. It is consistent with the observed SFG spectra, indicating that the alkanes lie flat on the silica surface.},
	keywords = {ACCELERATED SOLVENT-EXTRACTION, bitumen, CONFORMATION, FREQUENCY VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY, H STRETCHING MODES, LIQUID-CHROMATOGRAPHY, NORMAL-ALKYL CHAINS, ORIENTATION, SUM-FREQUENCY, SURFACE},
	isbn = {1932-7447},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000271826100033},
	author = {Yang, Z. and Li, Q. F. and Hua, R. and Gray, M. R. and Chou, K. C.}
}
@article {1584,
	title = {Testing assumptions about solute concentration dependence in liquid crystal NMR},
	journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry B},
	volume = {110},
	number = {3},
	year = {2006},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 008NATimes Cited: 2Cited Reference Count: 24},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {1363-1368},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {The NMR spectra of four solutes, used as probes of liquid crystal orientational order, were analyzed. For each solute, samples were prepared at different solute concentrations, and the concentration dependence was used to extrapolate zero-concentration properties. The mean-field (Maier-Saupe) model when applied to solutes neglects solute-solute interactions and assumes all solutes in a mixed-solute sample see the same average environment. The first assumption is only valid as one approaches zero concentration, while experiments are typically carried out at concentrations between 0 and 10 mol \%. The solute concentration dependence has in the past been "scaled out" using an internal solute reference as an orientational standard. We measured the concentration dependence of the orientational order parameter and calculate the corresponding interaction energies based on a mean-field interaction potential for a solute. We find agreement at the 3\% level between experiments for different solutes while using (i) the zero-concentration values as solute-dependent orientational references and (ii) scaling to either order parameters or interaction energies; these two scalings gave equivalent but not identical results. We find, too, that errors inherent in the experiment and the calculations will limit attempts to refine the theory to push the comparisons beyond the 2\% level.},
	keywords = {ANISOTROPIES, ELASTOMERS, ELECTRON-DIFFRACTION, MOLECULAR-STRUCTURE, ORDER, ORIENTATION, PHASE, SPECTRA},
	isbn = {1520-6106},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000235046300041},
	author = {Taggar, A. S. and Campbell, C. J. and Yethiraj, A. and Burnell, E. E.}
}
