title: On the existence of 'L-alanine cadmium bromide'.
abstract: It is argued that the recently reported nonlinear optical crystal L-alanine cadmium bromide, grown by slow solvent evaporation method at room temperature [P. Ilayabarathi, J. Chandrasekaran, Spectrochim. Acta 96A (2012) 684-689] is the well-known L-alanine crystal. The isolation of L-alanine crystal is explained due to fractional crystallization.
authors: Department of Chemistry, Goa University, Goa 403206, India. Electronic address: srini@unigoa.ac.in.
authors: Bikshandarkoil R
authors: BR
authors: Srinivasan
mesh_terms: D000409:Alanine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D001965:Bromides / Q000737:chemistry*; D002104:Cadmium / Q000737:chemistry*; D003460:Crystallization; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D001965:Bromides; D002104:Cadmium; D000409:Alanine
keywords: Fractional crystallization; Growth from solution; Nonlinear optical crystal; l-Alanine; l-Alanine cadmium bromide