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=== hints from George Sheldrick ===
From a [https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CCP4BB;7190ec63.1111 November 2011 posting]: UNIT specifies the number of atoms of each type in the unit-cell. For such
'small-molecule' problems you should try to get the numbers of heavier atoms
correct, if only CHNO are present any numbers will do.
For such problems I recommend setting FIND to about 70% of the number of atoms
(excluding H) in the asymmetric unit.
The first PLOP number should be approximately the number of atoms (excluding H)
in the asymmetric unit. The second PLOP number should be about 1.2 times this
and the third about 1.4 times it (three PLOP cycles are enough). This allows
the 'peaklist optimization algorithm' to throw out some of the atoms.
You will need data to 1.2A or better (1.0 is much better than 1.2!). The data
should be as complete as possible.


== Refine using [[SHELXL]] ==
== Refine using [[SHELXL]] ==
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