New phosphine ligands which also contained crown ether groups were synthesized by condensing two main reagents. Reagent A was Ph2P(CH2)3NH2 and it was prepared by reductingPh2P(CH2)2CN with LiALH4 in diethyl ether. Ph2P(CH2)2CN is obtained by reacting Ph2PH and CH2=C(H)CN in a Michael-type reaction. Reagent B, 4-formyl-benzo-15-crown-5, was obtained from the reaction of 3,4 dihydroxybenzaldehyde with 1,11 dichloro-3,6,9 trioxoundecane.By condensing the benzaldehyde crown ether and the phosphine amine, a Schiff-base type crown ether containing both P(III) and N(III) centers was obtained. Spectroscopic studies of the ligand and its Pd(II) derivative have shown PdCl2[Ph2P.(CH2)3N CH-C6H3(OMe)2]2 were characterized by that metal binding occurred exclusively on the P( III) center.A model ligand was synthesized by condensing 3,4-dimethoxybenzaldehyde with Ph2P(CH2)3NH2 to obtain an analogous product. Both ligands, Ph2P(CH2)3N=CH-benzo-15crown-5 and Ph2P(CH2)3N=CH -C6H3(OMe)2 and their palladium derivatives, PdCl2[Ph2P(CH2)3N=CH-benzo-15-crown-5]2 and spectroscopic and elemental analysis. The Pd(II) derivatives were synthesized from the reactions of (Ph2CN)2)PdC12 with the ligands.