“…In this context, the achievements in development of novel and efficient synthetic methodologies for these types of reactions have been acknowledged with the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Much attention has been paid to the design and development of powerful Pd-catalysts/precursors [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,37,38,39,40,41,42,43] that contain bulky and electron-rich ligands (such as phosphines and N -heterocyclic carbenes, NHCs) and to their potential synthetic applications [18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36] in the Pd-catalyzed cross-couplings of various substrates (such as allyl, aryl, and vinyl halides and olefins). Catalytic activity enhancement of Pd (0) ( L ) n -precursors is greatly influenced by the electronic and steric properties of electron-rich and bulky L- ligands [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,18,19,20,21,22,23,24…”