Are the Crystal Structures of Enantiopure and Racemic Mandelic Acids Determined by Kinetics or Thermodynamics?
Hylton, Rebecca K.; Tizzard, Graham J.; Threlfall, Terence L.; Ellis, Amy L.; Coles, Simon J.; Seaton, Colin C.; Schulze, Eric; Lorenz, Heike; Seidel-Morgenstern, Andreas; Stein, Matthias; Price, Sarah L.; Journal of the American Chemical Society 137 (2015) 11095–11104; doi:10.1021/jacs.5b05938

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 Are the Crystal Structures of Enantiopure and Racemic Mandelic Acids
 Determined by Kinetics or Thermodynamics?
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 (S) 3-methylmandelic acid 
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  1 omega -116.00  -86.00   1.0000   30.0200
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'calc w=1/[\s^2^(Fo^2^)+(0.0494P)^2^+8.0061P] where P=(Fo^2^+2Fc^2^)/3'
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