“…The metal derivatives of picric acid are helpful in homeopathy medicine and it shows extraordinary variety in the bonding of metal salts and complexes [17]. Many researchers have reported on the growth and studies of various picrate-type crystals in the literature [18][19][20][21]. In this work, β-alanine is combined with picric acid to form a beta-alaninium picrate (BAP) crystal and, as no work is available in the literature on the detailed studies of metastable zone width (MSZW), nucleation kinetics, growth, and various studies of BAP crystal, the aim of the work is to report the results obtained from solubility, MSZW, critical parameters, XRD studies, spectral studies, and second harmonic generation (SHG) studies.…”