Despite recent progress, true crystal engineering remains an elusive goal. Subtle differences in energy, as in the rotamers of 1, may cause great differences in solid-state structures, and the influence of a crystalline environment on molecular parameters is even less well-understood. Successes and problems in the studies of the structures of molecular crystals are discussed.
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Jens Wolff (1996) studied this question.