Correction: Green metrics evaluation of isoprene production by microalgae and bacteria

Abstract

Correction for ‘Green metrics evaluation of isoprene production by microalgae and bacteria’ by Cristina T. Matos et al., Green Chem., 2013, 15, 2854–2864.

After the publication of our article it was brought to our attention that we had not adequately acknowledged the fact that the sustainability metrics used in our article were originally developed by Roger A. Sheldon and Johan P. M. Sanders within the CM 0903 COST Action, UBIOCHEM. At the time of publication of our article a manuscript concerning the development of this concise set of sustainability metrics was in preparation. This manuscript has now been published in Catalysis Today¹ and constitutes the first description of the development of these metrics.

Additionally, Fig. 1 in the article was adapted from Fig. 9 in a paper in Metabolic Engineering,² and therefore the caption of Fig. 1 should read: “Carbon partitioning leading to the generation of sugars, terpenoids and fatty acids. Adapted from ref. 2, with permission from Elsevier.”

The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.

Notes and references

1. R. A. Sheldon and J. P. M. Sanders, Toward concise metrics for the production of chemicals from renewable biomass, Catal. Today, 2015, 239, 3–6.
2. P. Lindberg, S. Park and A. Melis, Engineering a platform for photosynthetic isoprene production in cyanobacteria, using Synechocystis as the model organism, Metab. Eng., 2010, 12, 70–79.

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