The synthesis of redox-active molecular receptors designed to selectively recognize and electrochemically sense charged or neutral guest species of biological and environmental importance is an area of intense current interest. [1] A number of research groups have incorporated redox-active transition metal and organic centers into a variety of macrocyclic structural frameworks based on crown ethers, cryptands, and calixarenes, and shown some of these systems to be selective and electrochemically responsive to the binding of metal cations, particularly lithium, [2] sodium, [3] and potassium. [4] However, the construction of redox-active ionophores for the selective recognition of the larger cesium and rubidium metal cations has not, to our knowledge, been reported. This situation is surprising in view of the environmental concern for monitoring radioactive cesium in nuclear waste solutions [5] and the potential use of rubidium isotopes in radiopharmaceutical reagents. [6] We report here the synthesis, coordination, and electrochemical investigations of novel bis(calix[4]diquinone) receptors L 1 and L 2 , and demonstrate their remarkable ability to selectively complex and electrochemically sense cesium and rubidium cations.Reaction of a solution of p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene (1) in acetonitrile with propane-1,3-ditosylate, 1,4-dibromobutane, or 1,5-dibromopentane in the presence of potassium carbonate gave the bis(calix[4]arene) derivatives 2, 3, and 4 in 30, 23, and 26 % yields, respectively (Scheme 1). Oxidation of these compounds with Tl(OCOCF 3 ) 3 in trifluoroacetic acid [4a, 7] gave the new bis(calix[4]diquinone) ionophores L 1 , L 2 , and L 3 in respective yields of 28, 10, and 9 % after column chromatography and recrystallization. [8] Electrospray mass spectrometry (ES-MS) competition experiments gave the first qualitative indication that L 1 and L 2 displayed notable selectivity preferences for Cs and Rb ions. The electrospray mass spectra of equimolar Group 1 metal iodides in the presence of solutions of the tetraquinone ligands in DMSO revealed the most intense peaks occurred at [6] T.