Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51256-2, published online 22 August 2024

In the version of the article initially published, Eq. (7) mistakenly appeared as NO2* → H2O(l) → H+(aq) + e and has now been corrected to NO2* + H2O(l) → HNO3* + H+(aq) + e in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.