title: Comment on the paper: "Crystal growth and spectroscopic characterization of Aloevera amino acid added lithium sulfate monohydrate: a non-linear optical crystal".
abstract: The title paper (Manimekalai et al., 2014) reports a slow evaporation solution growth of a so called 'Aloevera amino acid added lithium sulfate monohydrate' (AALSMH) crystal. In this communication, many points of criticism, concerning the crystal growth, NMR spectrum and X-ray powder pattern of this so called AALSMH nonlinear optical crystal are highlighted.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Goa University, Goa 403206, India. Electronic address: srini@unigoa.ac.in.
authors.forename: Bikshandarkoil R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Srinivasan
keywords: Crystal growth; Dubious data; Lithium sulfate monohydrate; NMR spectrum; Nonlinear optical; Powder pattern