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The crystallographic observation of an encircled proton in a tetraamide-containing macrocycle is described. The proton is held between two chemically and electronically equivalent amide carbonyl oxygen atoms within a dipositively charged macrocycle. Three water molecules and three bisulfate anions also reside in the unit cell.
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