The tripyrrin-1,14-dione scaffold of urinary pigment uroerythrin coordinates divalent palladium as aplanar tridentate ligand. Spectroscopic,structural and computational investigations reveal that the tripyrrindione ligand binds as ad ianionic radical, and the resulting complex is stable at room temperature.O ne-electron oxidation and reduction reactions do not alter the planar coordination sphere of palladium(II) and lead to the isolation of two additional complexes presenting different redox states of the ligand framework. Unaffected by stability problems common to tripyrrolic fragments,t he tripyrrindione ligand offers arobust platform for ligand-based redox chemistry.Redox-active (or redox non-innocent) ligands in coordination compounds can act as electron reservoirs,t hereby extending opportunities for multi-electron transformations beyond the redox chemistry of the metal center(s). Thedesign and study of such ligands is key to the engineering of new catalytic systems featuring additional pathways for redox reactivity.[1-4] Within biological catalysts,t he storage and release of redox equivalents on tetrapyrrolic ligands is critical in numerous heme enzymes including catalases and cytochrome P450 monooxygenases.S ynthetic tetrapyrroles,s uch as porphyrins, [5] corroles, [6][7][8] and bilins, [9,10] as well as expanded porphyrin macrocycles [11][12][13][14][15] and tetradentate bis(phenolate)-dipyrrins, [16] display rich ligand-based redox chemistry.Incontrast, the stabilization of unpaired electrons is not well documented for smaller dipyrrolic and tripyrrolic fragments.H erein, we describe the one-electron redox chemistry of astable tripyrrindione framework in palladium-(II) complexes.Conjugated tripyrroles are attractive ligand platforms, likely inheriting the exquisite electronic tunability of porphyrins while allowing access to the metal center for additional coordination in the plane of the ligand. Thec oordination chemistry of tripyrroles,h owever, suffers from limited stability of the ligands and complicated redox chemistry in the presence of transition metals (often leading to ligand deterioration).[17] Fori nstance,t ripyrrins (Scheme 1) are typically stable as protonated salts in neat trifluoroacetic acid, but decompose rapidly in the presence of nucleophiles. [18] In addition, tripyrrane [19] and tripyrrin-1-one [20] scaffolds,a sw ell as pyrrolyldipyrrin prodigiosin [21,22] (Scheme 1), undergo oxidative ligand degradation in the presence of Cu II ions. Atripyrrolic motif is found in the structure of ubiquitous urinary pigment uroerythrin (Scheme 1), which was first isolated in 1975 from the pool of pigments excreted in human urine and generically known as urochrome. [23,24] We reasoned that the tripyrrin-1,14-dione scaffold of this physiological product of heme degradation could serve as astable platform for metal coordination. In addition, the ability of tetrapyrrolic bilindione (i.e., an analog of heme metabolite biliverdin) to stabilize ligand-based radicals [9,25] prompted us to cons...