Retraction Note: A porous Er(III)–organic framework as a highly efficient catalyst for chemical fixation of CO2 and treatment activity on senile deafness via inducing the cochlear hair cell apoptosis

Retraction Note to: Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society (2020) 18:1303–1309 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13738-020-02111-w

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article. After publication, the corresponding author requested retraction and stating the results could not be reproduced due to incorrect reagents used in the experiments. Further investigation by the publisher raised issue with incongruities in the text and what appears to be breaks in blots presented in Fig. 5. The article also appears to contain inappropriate or irrelevant references. The corresponding author refused to provide raw data underlying the study. The Editor-in-Chief, therefore, has lost confidence in the findings of this article. The authors did not respond to correspondence from the editor about the wording of this retraction.