Paramagnetic relaxation in inorganic complexes. I. Inhomogeneous hyperfine broadening

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“…36 Dalton et al reported certain physical constants (g-and a-values) they claimed to have measured. As shown in Figure 2, each of the eight values reported in the first four lines of Table III of Dalton et al ( Figure 2B) 4 is identical to the number given in Table 1 of Zhitnikov and Kolesnikov (Figure 2A). 5 The only differences are the estimates of the errors in measurement.…”

“…35 The reader is left to speculate as to how graphs purportedly recorded on different instruments and on different continents can resemble each other with such fidelity. Over 70% of the passages in the paper by Zhitnikov and Kolesnikov 5 were repeated, almost verbatim, in Dalton et al, 4 as exemplified by the following pair: Zhitnikov and Kolesnikov, 1965: It may be assumed that the sodium atoms, for which two types of capture locations occur, are stabilized in a substitutional position of the benzene lattice, and in an interstitial site, in the center of a somewhat distorted octahedron, while the potassium and rubidium atoms, which are of larger size than the sodium atoms, are only stabilized in the substitutional position, where there is more room than in the octahedral position... The fact that no monotonic character is observed in the matrix shifts on going from sodium to potassium and from potassium to rubidium is not inconsistent with the theoretical ideas…since the increase in the negative shift resulting from an increase in the polarizabilities in the order Na, K, Rb may be made up for by the positive contribution to the matrix shift, which increases with increase in the size of the atom in the series of alkali metals.…”

“…Random electronic noise is mimicked bump for bump in the overlay. 4,5 It is impossible to have identical patterns of stochastic electronic noise in different experiments. 35 The reader is left to speculate as to how graphs purportedly recorded on different instruments and on different continents can resemble each other with such fidelity.…”

“…The fact that no monotonic character is observed in the matrix shifts upon progressing from sodium to potassium and from potassium to rubidium is not inconsistent theoretical concepts…since the increase in negative shift resulting from an increase in the polarizabilities in the order sodium, potassium, rubidium may be compensated by the positive contribution to the matrix shift, which increases with increasing size of the atom in the series of alkali metals. 4 Highlighted verbatim passages and a paragraph-byparagraph comparison of reference 4 and reference 5 are provided in the Appendix. 36 Dalton et al reported certain physical constants (g-and a-values) they claimed to have measured.…”

“…Regarding [redacted]s mistake [the retracted 1967 article 4,6 ], he should have known better. It was irrelevant whether you knew about it because Harvard said he was a trained scientist and Harvard dealt with the issue at the time.…”