Abstract
IOS Press has retracted the following content of its online content:
[Main Group Chemistry, 19(1), pp. 9-17, 2020, DOI: 10.3233/MGC-190812]
The Editor-in-Chief was contacted by readers about the allegation of improper citations in the article. Investigation by the editorial office found that several references in the article do not support the results and, in some cases, do not relate to the content of the article, as found by readers who shared their findings in PubPeer. The article also allegedly reuses an unrelated image in Figure 6.
Further investigation by the editorial office found unusual and unjustified authorship changes.
The corresponding author informed confirmed that the article should be retracted.