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Retraction: Ring-opening polymerization of lactide by aluminium catalyst
Anita
Routaray
a,
Nibedita
Nath
a,
Tungabidya
Maharana
*b and
Alekha Kumar
Sutar
*a
aCatalysis Research Lab, Department of Chemistry, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack-3, Odisha, India
bDepartment of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, India
First published on 4th April 2017
Abstract
Retraction of ‘Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactide by Aluminium Catalyst’ by Anita Routaray et al., Catal. Sci. Technol., 2015, DOI: 10.1039/c5cy00454c.
We, the named authors, hereby wholly retract this Catalysis Science & Technology article due to unattributed text overlap with two of our other published works1,2 and notable similarities between the text in section 3 of our article and the introduction in ref. 3.
We apologise for any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.
Signed: Anita Routaray, Nibedita Nath, Tungabidya Maharana and Alekha Kumar Sutar.
Retraction endorsed by Anna Simpson, Executive Editor for Catalysis Science & Technology.
31st January 2017.
References
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- A. K. Sutar, T. Maharana, S. Dutta, C.-T. Chen and C.-C. Lin, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2010, 39, 1724–1746 RSC.
- J. Ren, Biodegradable Poly(Lactic Acid), Tsinghua University Press, Bejing and Springer, Heidelberg, 2010, pp. 1–3 Search PubMed.
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