This review covers the use of immobilized metalloporphyrins as chemically interactive material for analytical purposes. Thus, applications based on selective binding interactions of metalloporphyrins being part of a macromolecular chain are reviewed since 1996. Two main aspects are consider, the first deals with the use of chemically modified electrodes coated with metalloporphyrin films as sensors in the catalytic reduction of molecular oxygen, nitric oxide, oxidation of phenols, and deshaloganation of organic compounds.

The second aspect concerns to the use of metalloporphyrins as sorbent for solid phase extration (SPE) of organic compounds and novel stationary phases for chromatography.