Abstract Utilizing chiral terpyridine derivative ligand (S)-2-((4-([2,2′:6′,2″-terpyridin]-4′-yl)benzyl)amino)propanoic acid (HL) and corresponding Ln(NO3)3, five new isostructural homochiral lanthanide metal–organic frameworks [[Ln2(HL)2(NO3)4(H2O)4]·NO3·Cl·7H2O}n [Ln = Nd (1), Pr (2), Sm (3), Eu (4), Tb (5)] comprised of left- and right-handed helical chains were solvothermally synthesized. Various
An intentionally synthesized chiral terpyridyl ligand S-2(4-(2,6-di(pyridin-2-yl)pyridin-4-yl)-benzylamino)-propanoic acid (H2L) was used to construct two chiral Ni-11 complexes, [Ni-2(HL)(2)(N-3)(H2O)](N-3)center dot 19H(2)O (1) and [Ni-2(HL)(2)(N-3)(2)]center dot 7H(2)O (2). Both complexes are dinuclear metallocydic complexes. The monoanionic form (HL)(-) of the chiral ligand coordinates to the metal centers in a bichelating antiparallel fashion to form the metallomacrocycles where the chiral metallocycles Ni-2(HL)(2) template the formation of a novel chiral 3D zeolite-like water framework with nanometer cages trapping the metallocycles or anchor chiral water chains in the 1D channels of a resulting chiral 3D supermolecule, respectively.