Zn(C17H8F6O4) is the first example of a fluoro-lined nanotube organo-inorganic 3D polymeric chiral structure, which possesses two different types of isolated channels, one of them being laid out with a double spiral of CF3-groups from the ligand molecule; the structure is a new uninodal 4-connected net that only exists when bent ligands connect the centres, and the compound exhibits selective sorption and catalytic chiral recognition properties.