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The biaxial ordering of some monosubstituted benzenes was determined from the infrared linear dichroism of solutions in the nematic host phase ZLI 1695. A correlation was found between the biaxiality and the anisotropy of the molecular shape. The orientational order of the solutes in this solvent appears to be determined entirely by dispersion forces but in other nematic solvents additional types of intermolecular forces are involved.
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