Green chemistry protects the environment, not by cleaning up, but by inventing new chemical processes that do not pollute the environment. Chemists from all over the world are using their creativity and innovation to develop new synthetic methods, reaction conditions, analytical tools, catalysts and processes under the new paradigm of Green Chemistry due to their valuable contribution in research.

Research in catalysis particularly cross coupling reactions catalyzed by transition metals is a major field in applied sciences and involves many areas of chemistry. In the last few years, there is upsurge in the area of heterogeneous catalysis for chemical industries. Transition metal chemistry (particularly Pd based) complements traditional functional-group-based chemistry and significantly broadens the scope of organic chemistry. For the past 20 years, numerous research groups have developed new metal complexes and ligands, expanding the scope of these transformations. The importance of...