“…If a polar solvent is added to the samples, the solvent molecules compete with the polar nitroxide and ether groups of the DOXYL ring, and the latter may be desorbed resulting in increased mobility. This effect should be largest for L( 1 4 4 where the DOXYL is far from the binding site, and smallest for L (4,11), where the DOXYL is closer to the binding site of the CIS chain. We have dissolved L(m,n) surface compounds in a number of liquids of different polarity (and polarizability), and have found our expectations fulfilled as is apparent from Fig.…”