Study on the preparation and catalytic activities of iron corrole has become one of the hot topics of porphyrin chemistry. In this paper, the recent progress about catalytic application of iron corrole in organic synthesis has been reviewed, with an emphasis on the oxidation, cyclopropanation and aziridination of olefin, insertion reactions involving N—H, S—H and C—H bonds, [4+2] cycloaddition as well as copolymerization of epoxides with carbon dioxide. The problems of iron corroles in catalysis and several directions have also been addressed.

Contents
1 Introduction
2 Application of iron-corrole complexes in organic synthesis
2.1 Catalytic oxidation
2.2 Catalytic cyclopropanation
2.3 Catalytic aziridination
2.4 Catalytic insertion reactions involving N—H, S—H and C—H bonds
2.5 Catalytic cycloaddition
2.6 Catalytic copolymerization
3 Conclusion