Supporting Information Reactivity of Carbenes in Aqueous Nanomicelles Containing Palladium Nanoparticles Uyen T. Duong, † Amol B. Gade, † Scott Plummer, ǁ Fabrice Gallou, ⊥ and Sachin Handa* † † Department of Chemistry University of Louisville 2320 S. Brook St. Louisville, KY 40292 *sachin.handa@louisville.edu ǁ Global Discovery Chemistry Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research 250 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 ⊥ Chemical & Analytical Development Novartis Pharma AG, Basel 4056 Switzerland Supplementary Material Contents Page 1. General experimental details S2 2. Reaction optimizations S3-S4 3. Synthesis of starting materials S5 4. Synthesis of nanoparticle catalyst and Composition Analysis S6 5. Detailed analysis of nanoparticle catalyst S7-S11 6. General procedure for catalytic reactions S12 7. Substrate scope S13 8. Application of gram scale reaction S14 9. Reaction rates comparison between fresh and recycled catalyst S15-S17 10. General procedure for tandem reactions S18 11. Recycle study S19-S20 12. 31 P NMR study of catalyst at various stages S21 13. Dynamic light scattering experiments S22 14. ICP-MS analysis S23 15. Analytical Data S24-S31 16. References S32-S33 17. NMR Spectra S34-56