Additions and corrections


Highly active and stereoselective zirconium and hafnium alkoxide initiators for solvent-free ring-opening polymerization of rac-lactide

Amanda J. Chmura, Matthew G. Davidson, Catherine J. Frankis, Matthew D. Jones and Matthew D. Lunn

Chem. Commun., 2008, 1293–1295 (DOI: 10.1039/b718678a) Amendment published 8th August 2008


The authors inadvertently neglected to reference one piece of work by Nomura in the original publication of this manuscript.1 The work reports the use of aluminium–salen complexes for the polymerization of rac-lactide. The authors apologise for this oversight.

1 N. Nomura, R. Ishii, Y. Yamamoto and T. Kondo, Chem.–Eur. J., 2007, 13, 4433.


The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for this error and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.


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