“…Chitosan is a non-toxic, biodegradable, and eco-friendly biopolymer and is commonly obtained from the deacetylation reaction of chitin (a long-chain polymer of N -acetylglucosamine). − Heterogeneous palladium catalysts have been characterized by their elevated catalytic sites, high selectivity, possibility to regulate the catalyst chemo-, regio-, and enantio-selectivities, ease of optimization of the catalytic systems, and better yields and are extensively used in Suzuki coupling reactions. − In addition, heterogeneous catalysts are superior over homogeneous ones, which suffer from major problems such as difficult separation and recovery and sometimes result in non-acceptable contaminations in the reaction products. − The expensive ligands employed in Suzuki coupling reactions were also problematic; therefore, numerous cheap materials, for example, silica, carbon, zeolite, cellulose, and chitosan had been involved as alternative support materials. − Among these, chitosan was preferred due to its unique properties such as (1) low cost, (2) abundance, (3) environmental friendliness, (4) renewability, and (5) the presence of the reactive −NH 2 and −OH functions capable of further modifications of chitosan. , Palladium-catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reactions were widely incorporated in organic chemistry. − The use of a microwave (MW) irradiation platform had high impacts in the academia and industry. − Furthermore, conducting organic reactions in aqueous solvents was advantageous compared to that in organic solvents. , As part of our interest on the applications of various palladium(II) complexes in C–C cross-coupling reactions, − the present work aimed at the facile synthesis of a chitosan-based palladium(II) biopolymer complex (denoted hereafter as ChsB-Pd 3 ) as a heterogeneous solid-nanosized catalyst and to study its catalytic activity in Suzuki cross-coupling reactions under the traditional heating mode as well as using the MW irradiation tool. In the presence of this heterogeneous catalyst, high conversion of different biaryls was achieved.…”