Linearly polarized (LP) and unpolarized (UP) light are racemic entities since they can be described as superposition of opposite circularly polarized (CP) components of equal amplitude. As a consequence they do not carry spin angular momentum. Chiral resolution of a racemate, i.e. separation of their chiral components, is usually performed via asymmetric interaction with a chiral entity. In thi...

This review summarizes recent developments in the field of enantiomer separation by capillary electrochromatography using fritless packed columns. Various enantiomers have been separated by employing fritless packed columns prepared in a fused silica capillary either by the immobilization of chiral packing materials by sintering or sol-gel technology or by in situ polymerization of a mixture co...

carbon nanotubes (cnts) are specific structures with valuable characteristics. in general, the structure of each nanotube is defined by a unique chiral vector. in this paper, different structures of short single-walled cnts are simulated and their mechanical properties are determined using finite element method. for this aim, a simple algorithm is presented which is able to model the geometry o...

An aqueous capillary electrophoretic method was developed for chiral analysis of the novel anti-diabetic drug, sitagliptin. The acid-base profiling of the analyte was carried out using both capillary electrophoresis and nuclear magnetic resonance pH titrations. The apparent complex stability and chiral separation properties were investigated with 30 different cyclodextrins under acidic conditio...

In order to meet the strong demand for storage and retrieval of chiral separations, we have developed Chirbase a database built on Chembasee from Molecular Design Limited, a very powerful and well spread software. Chirbase allows the selection of the most promising conditions for a given chiral separation by searching and retrieving at the same time molecular fragments issued from the compound ...

Poly(sodium undecenoyl-L-leucinate) (poly-L-SUL) was fractionated by the use of different molecular weight cutoff (MWCO) filters to narrow the polydispersity of the macromolecular sizes of the polymeric surfactant. The resulting polymeric surfactant fractions were characterized by the use of three techniques: (1) pulsed field gradient nuclear magnetic resonance (PFG-NMR) was used to determine t...

The first total syntheses of (+)- and (-)-subereamollines A and B are reported. The enantiomeric forms of the natural products were obtained by preparative chiral HPLC separation of the corresponding racemates.

Bis- and tris(methylated) derivatives of 3,3'-bis(N-confused porphyrin) were obtained. Methylation of C21 stabilizes the geometry of the axially chiral system allowing separation of enantiomers and assignment of an absolute configuration by X-ray methods.