Amino Acids: Chromatographic Separation and Enantioresolution

Amino acids are important biological compounds that are associated with peptides and proteins, and occupy an important position in the food and pharmaceutical industries. With their simple structures and the ready availability of both enantiomers, amino acids not only serve as a chiral pool for synthesis but also provide an inexpensive pool for resolution studies as either the racemate for resolution or the chiral selector for resolution of racemic mixtures of several other compounds. The development of analytical methods that can be applied for separation and identification and resolution of enantiomers of chiral compounds, including the control of optical purity, remains an area of interest and importance.

This book reflects the authors' research activities over the past 30 years in the area of separation and synthesis related to amino acids.