(Figure Presented) At long last, the crystal structure of the metastable form of benzamide, whose existence has been known of for over 170 years, has finally been solved by using a combination of in situ crystallization, high-speed synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction, and global-optimization methods of structure determination (see picture). © 2005 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
