The crystal and molecular structure of the low temperature phase of the pol
ycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon pyrene has been determined for the first time
by single-crystal X-ray diffraction methods. The crystal structure at 93 K
is shown to be in excellent agreement with that obtained by the refinement
of powder neutron diffraction data for pyrene II obtained at 4.2 K, (C) 200
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