On the existence of 'L-alanine cadmium bromide'

Abstract

It is argued that the recently reported nonlinear optical crystal l-alanine cadmium bromide, grown by slow solvent evaporation method at room temperature [P. Ilayabarathi, J. Chandrasekaran, Spectrochim. Acta 96A (2012) 684-689] is the well-known l-alanine crystal. The isolation of l-alanine crystal is explained due to fractional crystallization.