Abstract:
In this critical comment, we prove that a recently published paper titled, "Fabrication, Characterization and Optical Investigation of Semi-organic Nonlinear Alanine Hippurate Single Crystals" (Akilandeswari et al J Clust Sci 33, 439-448, 2022) is completely erroneous. A so-called "alanine hippurate" is, in fact, hippuric acid.