ACS Catalysis has retracted a 2012 research letter from a chemistry lab that discovered an error in their experiments.
According to last author Rory Waterman at the University of Vermont, an undetected reaction caused his lab to mistakenly mischaracterize the products of an iridium catalyst. The diligence of a graduate student brought it all to light, he noted: “In short, it was the ability of one of my group members to be a very good scientist.”
The letter, titled “High Activity and Selectivity for Silane Dehydrocoupling by an Iridium Catalyst,” was published in February. It has only accumulated 5 citations, according to Thomson Scientific’s Web of Knowledge.
According to the retraction notice: Continue reading Catalyst for change: grad student catches error in chem experiments, prompts retraction