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Science 22 December 1972:
Vol. 178. no. 4067, pp. 1282 - 1283
DOI: 10.1126/science.178.4067.1282
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Direct Phase Determination from Neutron Diffraction Data of the Structure of Melampodin

Ivan Bernal 1 and Steven F. Watkins 2

1 Department of Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
2 Coates Chemical Laboratory, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803

The structure of a large complex molecule, C21H24O9, has been solved directly from neutron diffraction data by using sigma-2 and tangent refinement methods. As a consequence, the neutron diffraction technique must be reevaluated as a possible primary tool for crystal structure determination.


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