“…Consequently, a large number of N,S-based macrocycles have been reported and their binding properties towards environmentally important elements have been investigated. [10,11] To the best of our knowledge, the thiophenolate derivatives [12Ϫ14] of Robson-type macrocycles have not yet been tested in this respect. This led us to investigate the ligating properties of the dinucleating hexaaza-thiophenolate ligand (L Me ) 2Ϫ (see Scheme 1) [15,16] towards the metal ions Cd II , Hg II and Pb II .…”