Carbon-heteroatom bonds are ubiquitous among pesticides, pharmaceutical agents, and natural products. In recent years, significant progress has been made in transition-metal-catalyzed carbon-heteroatom bond formation. Especially, iron-catalyzed reactions have become a focused area in organic chemistry owing to their advantages of low cost, economical and environmental benignity. This review intends to summarize the recent advances in the construction of carbon-heteroatom bonds via cross-coupling reactions using iron as a catalyst, including the formation of CÀ N, CÀ O, CÀ S, CÀ B, and CÀ Si bonds. A series of nucleophilic heteroatoms reagents, reaction classifications, and iron catalytic systems are discussed. In addition, some mechanistic studies have also been described. formation of CÀ N, CÀ O, CÀ S, CÀ B, and CÀ Si bonds are mainly focused. 2. Iron-Catalyzed CÀ N Bond Formation The construction of CÀ N bond by transition metal-catalyzed is one of the most significant transformations in organic synthesis, which is widely employed in chemical, pharmaceutical, and materials industries. [8] The classical method to access CÀ N bond is through the transition metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction between aryl or alkenyl halides and amines, also known as Buchwald-Hartwig amination reaction. In recent years, the formation of CÀ N bond via CÀ H activation has been welldocumented. [9] After decades of development, the great progress has been achieved in the transition metals (Cu, Pd, Ni, Fe, Co) catalyzed the construction of the CÀ N bond. [10] However, compared with other transition metals, iron-catalyzed CÀ N bond formation has less been studied, which might be caused by the negative effect of trace metals. [21-22] 2.1. Iron-Catalyzed CspÀ N Bond Formation Alkynamines are essential compounds, widely used in organic reactions such as pericyclic reaction, tandem RCM, Pauson-Khand reaction, Kinugasa reaction, Saucy-Marbet rearrangement, and Ficini-Claisen rearrangement. [11] In 2009, Zhang and coworkers [11e] developed the first example of iron-catalyzed amination of alkynyl bromides (Scheme 1). Nucleophiles such as amide, sulfonamide, and indole could react with alkynyl bromides to obtain alkynamines in high yields under FeCl 3 * 6H 2 O and DMEDA catalytic system. This reaction exhibits good functional group tolerance, and the functional groups