red or green?

The crystals diffract. It has been really difficult figuring out just what color these crystals are. The compound is paramagnetic, so the color is very deep. It looks like a reddish purple color when it is in solution, but the crystals came out almost with a green color when looked at the right way. I took them to the crystallographer who informed me that the crystals are dichroic, and this explains the confusion in the colors. For now, a crummy picture of the crystals and one of the diffraction slices... later, hopefully, pictures showing the dichroism and little more discussion on just what dichroism is and how it works. A resounding success by any measure. X-ray quality crystals were grown from a slowly cooled n-hexane solution.