Study of liquid crystalline order by NMR

Ramanathan, KV (2009) Study of liquid crystalline order by NMR. In: Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 89 (2). pp. 75-86.

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Abstract

The liquid crystalline phase represents a unique state of matter where partial order exists on molecular and supra-molecular levels and is responsible for several interesting properties observed in this phase. Hence a detailed study of ordering in liquid crystals is of significant scientific and technological interest. NMR provides several parameters that can be used to obtain information about the liquid crystalline phase. Of these, the measurement of dipolar couplings between nuclei has proved to be a convenient way of obtaining liquid crystalline ordering since the coupling is dependent on the average orientation of the dipolar vector in the magnetic field which also aligns the liquid crystal.However, measurement of the dipolar coupling between a pair of selected nuclei is beset with problems that require special solutions. In this article the use of cross polarization for measuring dipolar couplings in liquid crystals is illustrated. Transient oscillations observed during cross polarization provide the dipolar couplings between essentially isolated nearest neighbor spins which can be extracted for several sites simultaneously by employing two-dimensional NMR techniques. The use of the method for obtaining heteronuclear dipolar couplings and hence the order parameters of liquid crystals is presented. Several modifications to the basic experiment are considered and their utility illustrated. A method for obtaining proton–proton dipolar couplings, by utilizing cross polarization from the dipolar reservoir, is presented. Some applications are also highlighted.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of the Indian Institute of Science
Publisher:	The Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to The Indian Institute of Science (IISc).
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > NMR Research Centre (Formerly Sophisticated Instruments Facility)
Date Deposited:	09 Feb 2012 09:19
Last Modified:	09 Feb 2012 09:19
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/43334

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