Retraction notice to “Investigation of reaction mechanisms of CO₂ reduction to methanol by Ni-C₈₀ and Co-Si₆₀ catalysts” [Inorg. Chem. Commun. 139 (2022) 109358] (Inorganic Chemistry Communications (2022) 139, (S1387700322001666), (10.1016/j.inoche.2022.109358))

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. In investigating concerns brought up regarding the article, the editor reached out to the authors for an explanation. Post-publication, the editor also discovered suspicious changes in authorship between the original submission and the revised version of this paper. In summary, the paper was submitted by a sole author, Tiejun Xu. During revision, the author names Saade Abdalkareem Jasim (New First Author), Maria Jade Catalan Opulencia, Azam Abdusalamovich Khalikov, Walid Kamal Abdelbasset, and Erich Potrich were all added to the revised paper without explanation and without exceptional approval by the journal editor, which is contrary to the journal policy on changes to authorship. The editor reached out to the authors for an explanation of the above points, but they failed to reply. Overall, the editor feels that the findings of the manuscript cannot be relied upon, and the article needs to be retracted.