A new chiral copper borophosphate, LiCu 2 [BP 2 O 8 (OH) 2 ] (1), was crystallized from achiral inorganic raw materials in boric acid flux reaction. The structure features a 9-ring channel enclosed by triple right-handed helices. The bulk sample exhibits optical activity confirmed by circular dichroism (CD) spectra, indicating an interesting spontaneous resolution phenomenon.Chiral inorganic microporous materials with distinct porosity and chirality are particularly desirable because of the increasing demand for many applications in enantioselective sorption, separation and asymmetric catalysis. 1 However, it remains a significant challenge to control the synthesis of enantiopure inorganic open framework materials. Considerable efforts have been made to search for such materials, and several synthetic strategies were developed including incorporating chiral moieties or chiral ligands into the building blocks, and introducing a chiral template, solvent or catalyst into the synthetic system. 2 Recent research works on the synthesis of chiral aluminophosphates, 3 germantes 4 and borates 5 suggest that another possible route is to change the framework elements. This hypothesis was supported by a molecular design and calculation result, namely that, in order to obtain energetically stable chiral four-connected zeotype materials, some of the framework atoms should be substituted by other types of atoms such as Be, B, Ge, As or transition metals, etc. 6 It is highly desirable to prepare homochiral porous materials from achiral raw materials due to the high cost and limitation of enantiopure resources. 7 Very recently, two optical active inorganic microporous compounds (C 4 16 is the first chiral borophosphate with intersecting 12-ring channels spontaneously crystallized from an ionothermal system. Although so many chiral borophosphates were synthesized by spontaneous crystallization, none of them showed optical activity in circular dichroism (CD) measurements, which meant that those bulk materials were racemic conglomerates.In this work, we have for the first time identified a new optically active open-framework copper borophosphate compound, † Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Details of synthesis, characterization and crystal structure determination, XRD and TG/DSC and magnetic measurements for 1. CCDC 902700. For ESI and crystallographic data in CIF or other electronic format see