Macrocyclic compounds are widely used as preorganized host molecules for the selective binding of specific guests. [1] Commonly, these guests are monometallic cations or small polar molecules, such as urea. An alternative possibility is to assemble a given set of molecules around a metal center [2] or molecular pattern [3,4] and then couple the molecules to one host±guest complex. In this reaction sequence the metal center or molecular pattern functions as template.[5] In a number of recent reports the latter strategy has been used for the synthesis of catenanes and knots, [6] and of molecular wires imbedded in an alkane double helix. [7] In these reactions, host and guest often become irreversibly integrated in an assembly with novel molecular properties.In a recent study, we prepared a series of shape-persistent multimetallic compounds which can be easily converted into the corresponding multicationic species.[8] The cationic sites in the trication of 1 (see Scheme 1) used in the present study are fixed in a two-dimensional space and are at the corners of a triangle with edges of 1.75 nm.[8b] The NCN pincer platinum cations bind new ligands exclusively trans to C ipso along the pseudo C 2 axis of the molecule (C 4 -C ipso -Pt). Accordingly, binding of pyridine ligands provides a special molecular arrangement having the planes of the tris(phenylene)benzene core and the pyridine ligands coplanar. It turns out that of the combinations ECE pincer ligand/metal/pyridine (E: N, S; metal: palladium, platinum) the NCN pincer platinum pyridine complexes are the kinetically most stable ones. [9] Moreover, the NCN-Pt complexes are the least active catalysts for the isomerization of a-olefins (see below). This makes the trication of 1 an ideal template for interconnecting the pyridine rings at the ortho or meta positions thereby forming a large tris(pyridyl) macrocyclic compound around the trication.Here we report the selective linking of 2,6-bis(dec-9-enyloxy)pyridine substituents by alkene metathesis to form a 69-membered tris(pyridyl) macrocycle. Its detachment occurs by addition of nucleophiles, for example, Cl À . The trisolefinic macrocycle could be hydrogenated and subsequently recoordinated to the tricationic template. This sequence (Scheme 1) provides a new approach to the selective synthesis of largering macrocyclic hosts which have as the only preorganization a precise atom connectivity pattern.2,6-Bisolefin-substituted pyridines 2 a,b were prepared from 9-decen-1-ol and 2,6-dibromopyridine or 2,6-bis(chloromethyl)pyridine, respectively. The template precursor 1 (1 mmol) was reacted in CH 2 Cl 2 with three equivalents of either 2 a or 2 b in the presence of suspended AgBF 4 to give the tricationic compounds 3 a or 3 b, respectively, in quantitative yields. A prolonged reaction time (30 min to 16 h) is necessary because of the poor solubility of AgBF 4 in CH 2 Cl 2 . The compounds 3 undergo alkene metathesis in the presence of the first-generation Grubbs catalyst, [Cl 2 (Cy 3 P) 2 Ru¼ CHPh] (5 mol % per pyridine ...