The concepts of coordination chemistry developed by Alfred Werner at the beginning of the 20th century were finally substantiated by the realisation that a metal centre can invoke chirality by providing a central anchor-point to fix achrial ligands into a chiral structure. This is demonstrated easily with bidentate ligands which form tris-chelates, adopting either left- or right-handed propeller structures. On the other hand, a metal centre can provide an activation point for the inversion of the implied chirality of both pro-chiral and chiral ligands and lead to racemisation processes. Thus metal centres play an important role in terms of influencing the potential chirality of a given system. This lecture will take examples from some of our recent work to illustrate these fascinating, but sometimes challenging, points. For example, intriguing chiral separations can be achieved when racemates of chiral ligands are used.[1] Furthermore, in addition to structural chirality induced by the presence of metal ions,[2] we can consider the implications for the fourth dimension in terms of time-reversal symmetry with a particular perspective on magnetic behaviour.[3]figure