Phosphorus-based macrocycles with acetylenic scaffolds have been built from acetylene-substituted phosphane oxides that were formed from diisopropylphosphoramidic dibromide (3) and an acetylenic Grignard reagent. The fourand six-edged macrocycles 15 and 16, in which the iPr 2 NP(O) units are connected through 1,3-butadiyne rods, were obtained from the monosilylated derivative of iPr 2 NP(O)(C 2 H) 2 (7) by multiple acetylene coupling reactions under oxidative