Correction to: Communications Chemistry https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-022-00657-9, published online 17 March 2022.

The original version of this Article contained a number of errors in Fig. 2, its caption, and the Results section. In Fig. 2, the conversion from 6 to 10 incorrectly depicted the addition of 2,3-diaminotoluene instead of 1-amino-2-methyl-6-nitrobenzene; the chemical structure of 10 incorrectly depicted an amino substituent in place of the nitro group; and the initial step in the conversion from 10 to CXF-008, i.e., the addition of Raney Ni and H2, was omitted in error. The caption of Fig. 2 and the 5th sentence of the Results section incorrectly named uracil in place of 5-hydroxymethyluracil as the starting material. These errors have now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.