Relation for the determinant of a special Hadamard product.

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Inspired by this very related question.

Let $A$ be a circulant matrix and $X$ an anti-circulant matrix of size $n\times n$. Moreover let the sum of each row in $X$ be zero, $\sum_i x_{ij}=0$. It appears that for $n=3$, Oppenheim's inequality achieves equality, i.e.: $$\det(A\circ X)= (\det A)\prod_i x_{ii}$$

Where $\circ$ is the Hadamard product.

Empirically, this relation no longer holds for other $n$. Is there a particular reason why this only works for $n=3$ and not for higher $n$? Is this just chance or is there a deeper reason?