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 | | Thus, for 3D searches which test enantiomorph-sensitive parameters, it is quite possible for the first-located fragment to fail the search criteria, but for these criteria to be satisfied by the inverse fragment (the enantiomorph) in which the sign of each atomic coordinate has been changed. |
 | | steroids, carbohydrates, etc.) where the absolute stereochemistry is well known and is not in doubt, it is quite possible for the incorrect enantiomorph to be assigned and refined perfectly well in the determined space group, especially where the axial system describing the crystal structure has inadvertently been chosen to be left- rather than right-handed. |
 | | This issue is complex, and the CCDC is now engaged in a project to identify (as far as possible) those cases of erroneous enantiomorph assignments. |
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