Chiral inorganic materials with helical pores are particularly desirable because of their promising applications in enantioselective catalysis and separation. It is recognized that both zeolite beta [1, 2] and are heavily intergrown, with one of the polymorphs being chiral. However, an optically pure chiral zeolite material has been never found. [8] UCSB-7 frameworks contain cross-linked helical pores, [9] and metal borophosphates contain 6 1 or 6 5 helices.[10]Recently, we reported the layered zinc phosphite [(C 5 H 6 N 2 )Zn(HPO 3 )], which consists of left-handed and right-handed helical chains. The guest templating molecules are found to be important for the formation of the helical -Zn-O-P-chains.[11]Employing chiral metal complexs as templating agents has proven to be a possible approach to induce a chiral environment in the host framework.[12] Several metal phosphates templated by an optically pure or a racemic mixture of chiral metal complexes have been reported, including aluminophosphates, [12][13][14][15][16]

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