“…Naphthazarin exists in three crystalline modifications, which have been the subject of numerous studies (Palacios & Silva, 1938;Billy, 1955Billy, , 1958Borgen, 1956;Watase, Osaki & Nitta, 1957;Srivastava, 1958Srivastava, , 1959Srivastava, , 1961Golder & Zhdanov, 1958;Pascard-Billy, 1961, 1962a. The structures of all three are in space group P2Jc (or equivalent), and are such that the molecules are required to be centrosymmetric.…”