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A partially known structure, which may be a fragment of a molecule found by direct methods, can be solved completely by applying a weighted tangent refinement procedure on difference structure factors, similar to the authors' procedure for heavy-atom structures. Often the molecular fragment is found to be misplaced with respect to the symmetry elements: then, the space-group symmetry is reduced to P1, and the procedure is used to locate the symmetry elements.