13C NMR spectral assignments for nematic liquid crystals by 2D chemical shift gamma-encoding NMR

A novel method to accomplish 13C NMR spectral assignments for nematic liquid crystals is proposed. The two-dimensional (2D) isotropic/anisotropic chemical shift correlation spectrum is observed in which the anisotropic shift parameters are represented as sharp lines by gamma-encoding. The 13C spectral assignments can be made from the 2D spectrum with the aid of the 13C isotropic shift assignments for the same compound in the isotropic liquid state. The experiments were performed on p-methoxybenzilidene-p-n-butylaniline.