Correction: One-pot reductive amination of aldehydes with nitroarenes using formic acid as the hydrogen donor and mesoporous graphitic carbon nitride supported AgPd alloy nanoparticles as the heterogeneous catalyst

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Correction for ‘One-pot reductive amination of aldehydes with nitroarenes using formic acid as the hydrogen donor and mesoporous graphitic carbon nitride supported AgPd alloy nanoparticles as the heterogeneous catalyst’ by Seda Ergen et al., New J. Chem., 2018, 42, 10000–10006, DOI: 10.1039/C8NJ01569D

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The authors regret that Fig. 1 of the above article, which shows the TEM images of colloidal Ag₄₀Pd₆₀ alloy nanoparticles (NPs), was published with an inadvertent error. The error was from using the TEM images of another sample of the same alloy NPs with very similar compositions (Ag₄₂Pd₅₈), which were synthesized by the same researcher in the same laboratory using the same procedure and the same experimental set-up and published elsewhere (Nano Research, 2017, 10(5), 1627–1640). Therefore, Fig. 1 in the published paper should be replaced by the correct one given below. However, the authors confirm that this change does not invalidate the conclusions drawn from the TEM images because these two alloy NPs with slightly different compositions possess the same morphology and the same average particle size. The only slight difference between these two alloy NPs is their alloy compositions that were calculated from the inductively-coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS) analysis, which gives an average composition of the analyzed sample. Moreover, the authors confirm that this change does not affect the originality and importance of the scientific findings reported in the paper. The correct Fig. 1 is shown below. The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Fig. 1 Representative TEM images of the colloidal Ag₄₀Pd₆₀ alloy NPs taken from their hexane dispersion at two different magnifications.

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

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