In the current study, a convenient way is presented to synthesize one ditopic and two tetratopic pyridine-based ligands, which are then used to construct metallo-supramolecular polygons. The tetratopic ligands offer two different metalbinding sites, one central 2,2Ј-bipyridine, which can act as a chelate ligand, and two separate pyridine rings, which mediate assembly formation. The three ligands differ with respect to their conformational flexibility. While a biphenyl core allows the ligand to adjust its conformation as needed, a bipyridine core strongly prefers a divergent arrangement of the additional pyridine binding sites, but can be fixed in a cisoid conformation by metal complexation to the bipyridine. Instead, a phenanthroline core already fixes the pyridinyl-