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Article History

Received: 23 May 2016

Accepted: 18 October 2016

First Online: 5 December 2016

Change Date: 16 December 2016

Change Type: Erratum

Change Date: 30 May 2017

Change Type: Update

Change Details: In the version of this Article originally published, Z. Hearne was not acknowledged for proofreading the text. This has been corrected in all versions of the Article.

Change Details: In this Article we described a ruthenium-catalysed carbonyl addition method for alcohol production via simple unsubstituted hydrazone intermediates, but we inadvertently omitted the citation of two papers that had previously reported a similar carbanion reactivity1,2. In these papers, the authors illustrated a series of substituted hindered hydrazones (for example, tert-butyl-, trityl- and diphenyl-4-pyridylmethyl) for additions to carbonyl compounds; however, to yield the target alcohols under these circumstances, the lithium salts of these hydrazones had to be pre-formed, with subsequent C–C bond formation and removal of bulky substituents on azo-intermediates via radical decomposition. References 1. Baldwin, J. E. et al. Azo anions in synthesis: use of trityl- and diphenyl-4-pyridylmethylhydrazones for reductive C–C bond formation. Tetrahedron 42, 4235–4246 (1986). 2. Baldwin, J. E., Bottaro, J. C., Kolhe, J. N. & Adlington, R. M. Azo anions in synthesis. Use of trityl- and diphenyl-4-pyridylmethyl-hydrazones for reductive C–C bond formation from aldehydes and ketones. J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun. 22–23 (1984).

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing financial interests.