1,1',2,2'-Tetramethyl-3,3'-(<i>p</i>-phenylenedimethylene)diimidazol-1-ium bis(tetrafluoridoborate)
Puvaneswary, Subramaniam; Alias, Yatimah; Ng, Seik Weng; Acta Crystallographica Section E 65 (2009) o1829–; doi:10.1107/S1600536809026312

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 1,1',2,2'-Tetramethyl-3,3'-(<i>p</i>-phenylenedimethylene)diimidazol-1-ium
 bis(tetrafluoridoborate)
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1,1',2,2'-Tetramethyl-3,3'-(<i>p</i>-phenylenedimethylene)diimidazol-1-ium
bis(tetrafluoridoborate)
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The following automatic conversions were performed:
'_symmetry_cell_setting' value 'Monoclinic' changed to 'monoclinic'
according to '/home/saulius/struct/CIF-dictionaries/cif_core.dic'
dictionary named 'cif_core.dic' version 2.4.1 from
2010-06-29.

'_exptl_absorpt_correction_type' value 'Multi-scan' changed
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'/home/saulius/struct/CIF-dictionaries/cif_core.dic' dictionary named
'cif_core.dic' version 2.4.1 from 2010-06-29.

Automatic conversion script
Id: cif_fix_enum 1527 2010-12-29 10:47:43Z saulius 

The following automatic conversions were performed:

'_symmetry_cell_setting' value 'Monoclinic' changed to 'monoclinic'
according to /home/saulius/struct/CIF-dictionaries/cif_core.dic
dictionary named 'cif_core.dic' version 2.4.1 from
2010-06-29.

'_exptl_absorpt_correction_type' value 'Multi-scan'
changed to 'multi-scan' according to
/home/saulius/struct/CIF-dictionaries/cif_core.dic dictionary named
'cif_core.dic' version 2.4.1 from 2010-06-29.

Automatic conversion script
Id: cif_fix_values 1715 2011-07-08 13:25:40Z adriana 
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