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Abstract
Recently Palffy-Muhoray, Dunmur, Miller, and Balzarini (PDMB) applied a modified Maier-Saupe mean field treatment to the calculation of properties of binary mixtures of nematogens. The theory of PDMB is here applied to some phase diagrams of 4,4′-di-n, n′-alkoxyazoxybenzenes that were previously quantitatively studied. The The PDMB equations were expanded using confluent hypergeometric functions for ease of calculation. Also predications for the slopes of the phase diagrams were calculated by recasting the statistical thermodynamic formulas for use in a new thermodynamic formulation called the equal G analysis. Reasonable agreement between theory and experiment was obtained.