Fully atomistic molecular dynamics simulations were run on 8OCB and 9 to provide a comparison with the experimental data, and using a similar approach to that reported for 11OCB and t-Bu-11OCB (11OCB appended with a bulky tertiary butyl end-group). The simulations were run from isotropic liquid-phase starting geometries of 1440 molecules and at a reduced temperature of T/Tc = 0.934 for both systems, where Tc is the estimated clearing point of the respective simulated system; the corresponding experimental temperatures are 56.7 and 61.6 °C (T/TSma-N = 0.970 and 0.941) for 8OCB and 9, respectively. Details of the methods are given in the SI.