“…Over the past few years, metal nanoparticles (MNPs) catalysts have attracted much interest and been widely used in many types of coupling reactions [1][2][3], such as Heck [4], Suzuki [5,6], Sonogashira [7,8], Stille [9,10], Ullmann [11,12], and Hiyama reactions [13,14]. MNPs catalysts are usually better than the corresponding molecular catalysts on catalytic activity due to their large surface area, so, they need protective agents to avoid the formation of bulk metal.…”