NONMESOMORPHIC SOLUTE-MESOMORPHIC SOLVENT INTERACTIONS STUDIES .3. A UNIFIED APPROACH TO PROBE LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE ORDER BY ELECTRON-SPIN-RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY

This paper reports values for the A and g magnetic tensor components f or PD-Tempone in the rigid limit of the n-pentyl (5CB), n-hexyl (6CB), n-heptyl (7CB), and n-octyl (8CB) cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals and f or Tempo-Palmitate in the rigid limit of 5CB and 6CB. A unified approa ch based on introducing a factor into the ''distortion theory'' expres sion for obtaining probe order parameters S-ii is successfully tested. The sign and value of this factor give the probability of alignment o f the ith axis of the probe along the applied magnetic field.