It doesn't happen often. Simply marking for interested parties that David Bradley wrote a piece about the recent L-Alanine Alaninium Nitrate article published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2009, 11, 9474 – 9483, DOI: 10.1039/b905070a) with a specific focus on the organic ferroelectric behavior of this system as argued from the results of the inelastic neutron scattering (INS) and temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopic studies. Also, of course, the entire discussion and analysis revolves around the results of the density functional theory (DFT) studies performed on the solid-state system with DMol3.
I find it mildly amusing that a paper that went through several rather exhaustive crystallography-focused review cycles (fighting with crystallography-specific reviewers about the use of the vibrational spectroscopy to provide the more realistic view of this organic salt in the solid-state) makes headlines (well, you know) only for the vibrational spectroscopy. I certainly won't point fingers (only browsers), but I've yet to see someone say the same of vibrational spectroscopists.