MAGNETIC-FIELD INDUCED ORIENTATION AND ANISOTROPIC SUSCEPTIBILITY OF NORMAL ALKANES

摘要: Nonfunctionalized n-alkanes, a basic organic building block, are not commonly associated with magnetic behavior. To quantify field effects on wax crystals, synchrotron x-ray scattering was used to measure the angular distribution arising from competition between Brownian rotation and energy in dispersion of uniform-sized n-alkane single crystals. Dramatic alignment both axes occurred preference carbon-backbone plane be {perpendicular} {rvec H}. Diamagnetic anisotropies were obtained by quantitative analysis orientational distribution. {copyright} {ital 1998} The American Physical Society}