“…The phase transition into a nematic liquid crystal occurs upon cooling liquid 4CB to T = 16. The conformational fluxionality and intermolecular interaction in nCB for n = 2, 5, 8, and 9 have been investigated by IR spectroscopy [2][3][4][5]. Spectra of these compounds were measured over a broad temperature range in the crystalline, liquid-crystalline, and liquid phases.…”