Well, a picture of the crystals just to show you how big they were. Unfortunately the camera I was using does not take very good close-up shots. There are two whole crystals shown in the J. Young tube, with a penny for size comparison. These were blocky, and I could actually tell you the space group just by looking at the facets on the crystals if I were to take the time to look them up. Unfortunately careful 11B and 13C NMR analysis indicates almost certainly that these are not what I thought they were, and to boot, they are pretty common and easy to obtain, which explains why I got such huge crystals.
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