Intended solution ----------------- The Catalan numbers satisfy the reccurence C_0 = 1 and C_{n+1} = \sum_{k=0}^{n} C_k * C_{n-k}, which means that the coefficients of S_n are just the Catalan numbers shifted one place to the right. A more refined way of seeing this is to note that the generating function for the Catalan numbers satisfies g(s) = 1 + s*g(s)^2, which means g(s)^2 = (g(s) - 1)/s. Now, g(s) = 1 + s + 2s^2 + 5s^3 + 14s^4 + ..., so (g(s) - 1)/s = 1 + 2s + 5s^2 + 14s^3 + ...