(3(1)E,3(2)Z,7(1)E,7(2)Z)-4,8-Bis(3,5-di-chloro-phen-yl)-1(4),3(3),5(3),7(3)-tetra-propyl-1(1)H,3(2)H,5(1)H,7(2)H-1,5(2,5),3,7(5,2)-tetra-pyrrola-2,6(2,5)-di-thiophena-cyclo-octa-phane.

Purple crystals of the title compound, C(50)H(44)Cl(4)N(4)S(2) were obtained from the reaction of 2,5-bis-(4-propyl-1H-pyrrol-2-yl)thio-phene and 3,5-di-chloro-benzaldehyde in the presence of tri-fluoro-acetic acid for 3†h and subsequent addition of p-chloranil. The macrocycle in the title compound can be described as a highly planar structure wthe the average deviation of the 32 macrocyclic atoms from the least-squares plane being 0.0416†à . Its mol-ecular conformation is stabilized by two intra-molecular N-H⋯N bonds and a three-dimensional network is formed by C-H⋯π inter-actions.