Main observation and conclusion
Aqueous heterogeneous catalysis is a green,sustainable catalytic process that attracts increasing attention,but it often suffers from poor mass transfer,substrate adsorption and catalyst dispersion.Herein,we synthesized a type of amphiphilic core-shell catalysts with a hydrophilic polydopamine (PDA) shell and a hydrophobic dendritic organosilica nanoparticle (DON) core for heterogeneous ca-talysis in water.