Herein, the design, synthesis, and characterization of ap henhomazine ligand are described. The ligand has six pendant acetate arms designed for the combined coordination of copper(II) and lanthanide(III) ions, with the perspective of developing a" turn-off"c oppers ensor. The key step for the ligand preparation was the one-step endomethylene bridge fission of ad iamino Trçger's base with ac oncomitant alkylation. Fluorescence anda bsorption spectroscopies as well as nuclearm agnetic resonance (NMR) experiments were performed to analyzea nd understand the coordination properties of the ligand. Transitionm etal coordination was drivenb yt he synergistic effect of the free nitrogen atoms of the diazocinic core and the two central acetate arms attachedt ot hose nitrogen atoms, whereas lanthanide coordinationi sp erformed by the external acetate arms, presumably forming as elf-assembled 2:2m etallosupramolecular structure. The terbiumc omplex shows the typical green emissionw ith narrowb ands andl ong luminescence lifetimes.T he luminescence quenching produced by the presence of copper(II) ions was analyzed.T his work sets, therefore, as tartingp oint fort he development of ap henhomazine-based "turn-off" copper(II) sensor.