The goal of green chemistry is to promote the research and the development of innovative chemical technologies in order to reduce the contamination of environment. Significant progress in this field has been made by using relatively non toxic transition metal and chiral ligands to catalyze enantioselective transformations. In this work, we have reported the combination of hydrogen peroxide as environmentally benign and atom-economically oxidant with water-soluble metalloporphyrins (Fe, Mn) for the asymmetric oxidation of sulfides, alkenes and C-H bonds. These catalytic systems widely studied as models of cytochrome P450, gave high enantiomeric excesses (ee up to 82%). In the other hand, we have developed carbene transfer reactions in water as « green » solvent catalyzed by water soluble iron porphyrins. This metal (Fe) has been found to overcome many limitations related to the use of other metals (Ru, Rh) in aqueous media. As an application of N-H insertion reaction, the regioselective bio-conjugation of insulin has been demonstrated with high conversion (90%).
