Dear Stanislav,
Depending on the program you are using to perform the refinement and the
particular space group of your structure, it could happen that the
coordinates you got from the database refer to a different origin of the
coordinate system than the coordinates you got from the structure
determination.
In many censtrosymmetric space groups the highest symmetry point in the
cell have no -1 (center of symmetry), the convention used to place the
origin of the cell in this highest symmetry point, however most of the
refinement and solution programs will assume the origin is on the highest
symmetry point of the cell containing a center of symmetry (no matter if
there is a higher symmetry point) because it simplifies computations, etc.
This discrepancy in origin choice could account for your problem. This
happens very frequently with quartz where two sets of coordinates are
stored in databases referring to two possible origins of the unit cells
not always given with the coordinates, producing confussion.
Check if your space group got two alternative origins (for most
centrosymmetric space groups with the highest symmetry point not
containing a center of symmetry both descriptions are given in the
International Tables with alternative choices)

I hope this helps,
Good luck
Leo

Prof. Dr. Leopoldo Suescun
Cryssmat-Lab/DETEMA/Facultad de Quimica
Universidad de la Republica
Montevideo, Uruguay


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