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Retraction: Design and synthesis of magnetic Fe3O4@NFC-ImSalophCu nanocatalyst based on cellulose nanofibers as a new and highly efficient, reusable, stable and green catalyst for the synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles
Pouya Ghamari kargara,
Ghodsieh Bagherzade*a and
Hossein Eshghib
aDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Birjand, Birjand, 97175-615, Iran. E-mail: gbagherzade@gmail.com; bagherzadeh@birjand.ac.ir; Fax: +98 56 32345192; Tel: +98 56 32345192
bDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
First published on 5th January 2024
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Design and synthesis of magnetic Fe3O4@NFC-ImSalophCu nanocatalyst based on cellulose nanofibers as a new and highly efficient, reusable, stable and green catalyst for the synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles’ by Pouya Ghamari kargar et al., RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 32927–32937, https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RA06251K
The Royal Society of Chemistry, with the agreement of the named author, hereby wholly retracts this RSC Advances article due to concerns with the reliability of the data.
The XRD patterns in Fig 4a–c and 10b contain repeating sections. The authors provided raw data for Fig. 4, but this was found to contain duplicated sections of data across different datasets representing different samples.
The raw XRD data provided by the authors for Fe3O4 in Fig. 4a of this article was identical in a number of different regions to the raw XRD data provided by the authors for CuO in Fig. 4b of this article and Fig. 3 of ref. 1. In Fig. 4c, the XRD data for Fe3O4@NFC-ImSalphCu was also found to contain identical sections of data within the raw dataset.
The authors have stated that they outsourced the XRD data collection to an external company.
Given the significance of these concerns, the findings presented in this paper are no longer reliable.
The authors were informed about the retraction of the article. Pouya Ghamari Kargar and Ghodsieh Bagherzade have not agreed with the decision.
Signed: Hossein Eshghi
Date: 13th December 2023
Retraction endorsed by Laura Fisher, Executive Editor, RSC Advances.
References
- P. G. Kargar, et al., RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 19203–19220, 10.1039/D1RA01913A.
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