Recognition and separation of one enantiomer over its mirror image is important because of the different biochemical activity shown by chiral compounds.[1] For example, a-limonene and linalool have a different smell [2] depending on the chirality and one enantiomer of the antidepressant drug methylphenidate is 13 times more potent [3] than its isomer. Ideally, recognition of an enantiomer requires recognition of three out of four different groups around an sp 3 -hybridised carbon centre.[4] Recognition of the groups in biological receptors often uses non-covalent interactions as observed in the case of adrenaline receptors. [5,6] The involvement of hydrogen bonds and other weak interactions in the recognition process has the advantage of easy recovery of the guest, but the lability of the guest makes the isolation of the hostguest complex more difficult.Recognition and separation of enantiomers by using synthesised hosts has been approached from diverse angles, [7] including a few that use a rigid metal-organic framework [8] (MOF). Although separation by using a chiral adsorbent as the stationary phase has progressed substantially, [7b-d] the understanding of recognition at the molecular level is limited to molecular modelling due to the difficulty in structural characterisation of large organic or MOF hosts.[1, 9-10] For example, Kim and co-workers used structurally characterised porous channels of a chiral metal complex as a host to enhance the stereoselectivity of an organic reaction, but structural characterisation with the adduct was not possible. [9] A low molecular weight rigid host would, in principle, facilitate structural characterisation, but it is challenging to accommodate three different recognition sites within a small host. Chin and co-workers, by using a chiral Co III complex as the host, showed the chiral interaction between the host and chiral guest in a set of structurally characterised covalently bonded host-guest complexes, but chiral separation was not possible because the interactions were weak due to the open nature of the cavity. [11] In a continuation of our earlier attempts [12] at synthesising a rigid chiral host by using metal complexes, we now present the first report on the synthesis and structural characterisation of a medium-sized chiral metallocavity and its hostguest complexes in which two different chiral amino alcohols were recognised through well-defined three point recognition resulting in chiral separation.We chose amino alcohols [13] as the target guest because of their structural similarity to adrenaline and noradrenaline, a hormone and neurotransmitter, respectively, (Scheme 1) and amino alcohols have two different hydrogen-bonding capable groups. Thus, binding with the host can be enhanced by electrostatic attraction between the cationic ammonium form of the amino alcohol and the use of an anionic host.A schematic representation of the sequence of reactions has been shown in Scheme 2.