Table 1.

Predicted and Experimental Alignment Tensors

	Azzc	R	α (deg)	β (deg)	γ (deg)
monomera	−33.4 × s	0.329	89.7	40.5	194
dimera	−56.9 × s	0.624	53.2	40.7	286
trimera	62.3 × s	0.0099	141	15.9	6.37
SVDb	(41.6 ± 0.7) × s	0.483 ± 0.014	77.7 ± 1.0	45.9 ± 3.0	338 ± 6

^aBoth predicted and experimental alignment tensors were calculated in PALES. The coordinates used for different oligomer are described in Materials and Methods.

^bSingular-value decomposition (SVD) was used to derive the experimental tensor. The error range was estimated using the Monte Carlo method.

^cThe axial component of alignment tensor A_zz was scaled from the predicted irreducible alignment magnitude by an arbitrary factor s.