“…[4,5] The impressive collectionofexpanded (hetero)porphyrinsremains in contrastwith rather modest number of expanded carbaporphyrinoids. [2,5] In fact, the history of expanded carbaporphyrinoidsd ates backt o1 978, when Berger and LeGoff reported on conjugatedt etraazaannulene molecule [1,3,1,3]platyrin 1 (Scheme 1). [6] Later on, the horizontally expandeda nalogue of 1,[ 1,5,1,5]platyrin 2 was synthesized.…”