A simple, greener, efficient, low cost and mild protocol has been developed for sucrose assisted palladium-catalyzed Suzuki reactions in water at room temperature under aerobic condition. The results demonstrate that the sucrose played a 10 crucial role making this protocol a highly efficient. The PdCl 2 /Sucrose/K 2 CO 3 /H 2 O system showed the superb catalytic activity towards the Suzuki reaction of a wide range of aryl/heteroaryl halides with different substituted phenylboronic acids. This method offers an attractive 15 alternative to the existing protocols since the reaction proceeds in aqueous media at room temperature under operational simplicity, shorter reaction time, cost-effective and also provides the products in high yields. The catalytic system is highly recyclable, allowing the reuse of the 20 palladium catalyst in subsequent catalytic runs without significant loss of activity.New advances in cross-coupling techniques have made very significant contribution to organic synthesis as well as pharmaceutical, agricultural and advanced functional materials. 1