Correction for ‘Theoretical design of stable hydride clusters: isoelectronic transformation in the E<sub>n</sub>Al<sub>4−n</sub>H<sub>7+n</sub><sup>−</sup> series’ by Carolina Giraldo <italic>et al.</italic>, <italic>RSC Adv.</italic>, 2017, <bold>7</bold>, 16069–16077.