Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2565-5Published online 12 August 2020

In this Article, the final product listed for each reaction in Fig. 5b should have been ‘N(SiMe3)3’ rather than ‘N(SiMe3)2’. In addition, the sentence beginning ‘The reaction with an equimolar mixture of C6H6 and C6D6…’ should have cited Supplementary Fig. 5 instead of Fig. 5b, and the sentence beginning ‘Other arene substrates…’ should have cited Fig. 5b instead of Fig. 5c. The original Article has been corrected online.