For some compounds, obtaining crystals can be quite difficult. Of course, it always seems to be the most difficult for those particular compounds for which you need crystals. For example, when chemists want absolute and definitive structure confirmation, X-ray crystallography is the de facto standard. But the crystallographer needs a good quality crystal to run the experiment that will determine the molecular structure. This particular compound is one for which I don't need X-ray data for--I'm certain of its structure; thus why it crystallized so easily!
It's hard to capture the beauty of the crystal with a camera (or at least it is for me, given my nonexistent photography skills), but I wanted to share what I thought was a pretty cool looking pattern of concentric rhombuses (diamonds).
