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Ambiguity in the Determination of Crystal Structures: 2-Phenylazulene

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OUR previous communication1 that 2-phenylazulene, like azulene itself2,3, was disordered in the crystal, with the longest molecular axis reversed at random, must now be amended as a result of the additional refinements to which we referred in ref. 1.

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DONOHUE, J., SHARMA, B. Ambiguity in the Determination of Crystal Structures: 2-Phenylazulene. Nature 198, 878–879 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/198878a0

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