Chiral coordination cages have potential applications in enantioselective recognition, sensing and symmetric catalysis. In general, chiral coordination cages can be synthesized either by starting from enantiopure ligands/metal-organic precursors or post assembly resolution/modification with chiral auxiliaries. Due to the paucity of structures and their limited cavities, host-guest chemical properties of lanthanide-organic cages still need to be explored, especially based on noncovalent host-guest interaction, the stereoselective synthesis strategy of lanthanide-organic cages induced by chiral guest as template has not been reported.
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