Hydration of terminal alkynes catalyzed by cobalt corrole complex

Cobalt(III) corrole was firstly applied to the hydration of terminal alkynes. The alkyne hydration proceeded in good to excellent yield with 0.03 to 0.3 mol% cobalt corrole catalyst loading. A wide range of substrates were tolerated. Particularly, the reaction can give 90% yield in a gram scale experiment.