While palladium catalysts find wide-spread utility in a variety of transformations in organic synthesis, [1] they are expensive, air-sensitive, and cannot be recovered in many cases. Immobilized palladium catalysts have been expected to solve these problems, and several polymer-supported palladium catalysts have been developed for allylic substitution, [2, 9a,b,e] oligomerization, [2c, 3, 4] decarboxylation, [2d] hydrogenation, [4, 9g] isomerization, [5] telomerization, [6] Suzuki coupling, [7, 9c,d,h] and the Mizoroki ± Heck reaction, [4c, 8, 9f,h] etc. In most of these cases, however, recovery and reuse of the polymer catalysts have not been satisfactory. [9] Recently, we developed novel polymer-supported catalysts, microencapsulated scandium trifluoromethanesulfonate (MC Sc(OTf) 3 ) [10] and osmium tetroxide (MC OsO 4 ). [11] Our work has demonstrated a new method for immobilizing catalysts onto polymers based on physical envelopment by the polymers and on electronic interaction between the p electrons of the benzene rings of the polystyrene-based polymers and vacant orbitals of the catalysts. We now apply this new technology to immobilizing palladium catalysts. Herein, we describe the use of microencapsulated triphenylphosphane palladium for allylic substitution and Suzuki coupling. In both cases, the catalysts were recovered quantitatively and reused. Moreover, valuable information on the structure of microencapsulated catalysts was obtained.Preparation of microencapsulated triphenylphosphane palladium was as follows: [12] polystyrene (1.0 g, M w ca. 280 000) was dissolved in cyclohexane (20 mL) at 40 8C, and to this solution was added tetrakis(triphenylphosphane)palladium(0) ([Pd(PPh 3 ) 4 ] 0.20 g) as a core ([Pd(PPh 3 ) 4 ] was dissolved). The mixture was stirred for 1 h at this temperature (and changed from brown to black), then slowly cooled to 0 8C. Coacervates (phase separation) were found to envelop the core dispersed in the medium, and hexane (30 mL) was added to harden the capsule walls. The mixture was left to stand at room temperature for 12 h, and the catalyst capsules were then washed with acetonitrile several times and dried at room temperature for 24 h. Three equivalents of triphenylphosphane (PPh 3 ) were recovered from the washings and one equivalent of PPh 3 remained in the catalyst capsules. We measured 31 P swollen-resin magic angle spinning (SR-MAS) trations a second by-product (`5 %) could be observed, which is most likely attributable to a square. The solvent was removed under a stream of N 2 , and the resulting white precipitate was dried in vacuo (yield 93 %). 1 H NMR (CD 3 NO 2 , 300 MHz): d 9.41 (s, 2 H; H pyr ), 1.79 (d, J P,H 11.4 Hz, 9 H; P-CH 3 ); 31 P{ 1 H} NMR (CD 3 NO 2 , 121 MHz): d À 25.6 (s, 195 Pt satellites, J Pt,P 3269 Hz); 19 F NMR (CD 3 NO 2 , 282 MHz): d À 78.1; 13 C{ 1 H} NMR (CD 3 NO 2 , 75 MHz): d 151.8 (s, C pyr ), 122.2 (q, J C,F 319 Hz, OTf), 14.7 (m,P-CH 3 ).