Abstract
We study the orientation and order parameter of a liquid crystalline random side chain copolymer by 13C NMR. Evidence has previously been presented that this material forms a de Vries smectic A phase. The NMR data show that the molecular tilt angle in the smectic A phase is very small or zero and the smectic A–smectic C* transition is attributed predominantly to a change of the molecular tilt rather than azimuthal ordering. We discuss the NMR results in the context of earlier X‐ray and elastic characterizations of structurally similar materials.
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