Hi Materials Studio Community,

I am trying to visualize crystalline lattices of solid phases of ethanol, monoclinic and bcc phases.

In both cases, I know all the required crystallographic information, including space group.

My main problem is that I cannot visualize properly the molecules within the unit cell.

I have been checking the tutorial and it seems to be quite simple, just copy the molecules and insert in the unit cell.

For the monoclinic phase, the arrangement of the two ethanol molecules inside the unit cell is clearly different as compared to the structure available as an example in MS.

But it is even worst for the high symmetry BCC phase (Im3m space group), the so called plastic crystal phase of ethanol. It has been reported that for this plastic crystal ethanol also two independent molecules define the unit cell. In this case, when I try to insert the ethanol molecules into the empty unit cell is a total mesh.

Could anyone give me some advice on this issue?

Thanks in advance,

Alex