The synthesis, pharmacological evaluation, and molecular modeling studies of unsymmetrical bis-alkylene bis-quinolinium cyclophanes and xylylene–alkylene bis- quinolinium cyclophanes is described. Two important structural features of the pharmacophore for SKCa channel blockade have been identified. These are (i) an optimum distance of ca. 5.8 Å between the centroids of the pyridinium rings of the two quinolinium ...