“…In our previous work, we have reported that dimeric oxime-derived carbapalladacycles 1 [7] and 2 [8] are excellent precatalysts in cross-coupling reactions under phosphine-free conditions such as, Heck, Stille, Suzuki, Ullmann, Sonogashira, Hiyama, and Glaser in organic and aqueous media, being even more efficient than Pd salts [9]. Cross-coupling processes such as Suzuki [8a,b,m] and Hiyama [8h,i,j] reactions could be performed using water as solvent even with hydrophobic substrates. The great importance of using water as a reaction solvent, specially in palladium-catalysed cross-coupling reactions has been highlighted in recent years [10].…”