15-Membered triolefinic macrocycles, their coordination chemistry with transition metals, and the catalytic properties of their palladium metal complexes. A review

(E,E,E)-1,6,11-Tris(arenesulfonyl)-1,6,11-triazacyclopentadeca-3,8, 11-trienes, 1, are prepared from arenesulfonamides and trans-1,4-dibromo-2-butene. Macrocycles 1 coordinate palladium(0), platinum(0), and silver(I), and the palladium complexes are useful and reutilizable catalysts or precatalysts in Suzuki cross-couplings, butadiene telomerizations, hydroarylation of alkynes, and in the Heck reaction. Structurally related macrocycles are also available by similar synthetic procedures.