Nature Chemistry 2, 800–802 (2010); published online 8 August 2010; corrected online 23 September 2010; retracted after print 29 June 2017.

In view of the fact that the Article 'Charge transfer to solvent identified using dark channel fluorescence-yield L-edge spectroscopy' by Emad F. Aziz et al. (Nature Chemistry 2, 853–857; 2010) has been retracted by the authors, I retract this News & Views highlighting the study because it relied on the validity of the data presented therein.