Triethylammonium salts of phosphinoferrocene amidosulfonates with electron-rich dialkyphosphino substituents, R 2 PfcCONHCH 2 SO 3 (HNEt 3 ) (4a-c), where fc = ferrocene-1,1 -diyl, and R = i-Pr (a), cyclohexyl (Cy; b), and t-butyl (c), were synthesized from the corresponding phosphinocarboxylic acids-borane adducts, R 2 PfcCO 2 H·BH 3 (1a-c), via esters R 2 PfcCO 2 C 6 F 5 ·BH 3 (2a-c) and adducts R 2 PfcCONHCH 2 SO 3 (HNEt 3 )·BH 3 (3a-c). Compound 4b was shown to react with [Pd(µ-Cl)(η-C 3 H 5 )] 2 and AgClO 4 to afford the zwitterionic complex [Pd(η 3 -C 3 H 5 ) (Cy 2 PfcCONHCH 2 SO 3 -κ 2 O,P)] (5b), in which the amidosulfonate ligand coordinates as a chelating donor making use of its phosphine moiety and amide oxygen. The structures of 3b·CH 2 Cl 2 , 4b and 5b·CH 2 Cl 2 were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Compounds 4a-c and their known diphenylphosphino analogue, Ph 2 PfcCONHCH 2 SO 3 (HNEt 3 ) (4d), were studied as supporting ligands in Pd-catalyzed cyanation of aryl bromides with K 4 [Fe(CN) 6 ] and in Suzuki-Miyaura biaryl cross-coupling performed in aqueous reaction media under mild reaction conditions. In the former reaction, the best results were achieved with a catalyst generated from [PdCl 2 (cod)] (cod = η 2 :η 2 -cycloocta-1,5-diene) and 2 equiv. of the least electron-rich ligand 4d in dioxane-water as a solvent. In contrast, the biaryl coupling was advantageously performed with a catalyst resulting from palladium(II) acetate and ligand 4a (1 equiv.) in the same solvent.