A pair of chiral, emissive and porous tubular multi-functional organic molecular cages were synthesized easily by imine chemistry of 4, 4’, 4’’, 4’’’-(ethene-1,1,2,2-tetrayl)-tetrabenzaldehyde (ETTBA) with (R, R)- or (S, S)- diaminocy-clohexane (CHDA). It was found that the chirality of CHDA was transfered and amplified to tetraphenylethylene (TPE) in the process of formation of cages, which further endowed the cages with circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) character-istics. As a result of the synergy of chirality and porous struc-ture in the solid state, both cages exhibited a good chiral ad-sorption enantioselectivity to a series of aromatic racemates.

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