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Changed in a flash: A photochemically unreactive crystal of 5-methyl-2-pyridone with a trimesic acid host is transformed in the solid state into a reactive phase by heating or by contact with solvent vapor. The mechanism was revealed to involve desolvation and a 180° turn of one molecule with respect to the other.
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Hirano et al. (2006) studied this question.
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