checkCIF procedure
PLAT031
PLAT031 Type_4 Check need for extinction correction parameter
This test checks whether a refined extinction parameter is meaningful i.e. whether its value is significantly larger than its corresponding s.u. If not, this parameter should be removed from the model and the structure refined without this meaningless additional parameter. The current default gives a warning when its value is within 3.33 s.u. SHELXL97-2 will not allow negative values leading to ill-convergence and non-zero maximum shift/error values: remove the extinction parameter from the refinement.

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