est, because the biologically effective chiral drug is either of enantiomers and the antipode is regarded as the impurity showing sometime high toxicity. Recently, the HPLC with chiral stationary phases (CSPs) has been extensively used to achieve the direct enantiomer separation. Crown ether, first introduced by Pedersen in 1967, was shown by Cram et al. to resolve enantiomers by the host-guest...
