“…According to the reported results on Pd NPs generated from PdCl 2 and Pd(OAc) 2 , the turnover numbers (TON) are between 1000 and 100,000 in general [16,29]. Obviously, our results with PdCl 2 and Pd(OAc) 2 as precursors are comparable with the reported results under the similar reaction conditions [27]. However, when S/C was raised to 5, 000, the reactivity of [Pd(C 3 H 5 )Cl] 2 as precursor was superior to PdCl 2 , Pd(OAc) 2 and Pd(dba) 2 and it gave a TON of 3500 (Table 1, 2 under the reaction conditions?…”