Chiral liquid chromatography and capillary electrochromatography: Trends from 2017 to 2018

Chiral separation remains an important area of research in analytical chemistry. This review recognises the use of different chiral selectors for chiral liquid chromatography and capillary electrochromatography. For the past two years (2017-2018), there was high activity in the development of chiral chromatographic materials and methods as shown by the 93 research and 9 review articles covered. Based on the covered papers, we categorised chiral selectors as low molecular mass, oligomeric, polymeric and metal/covalent organic framework entities. Popular research topics are on liquid chromatography (76 papers), new chiral selectors and stationary phases (56 papers) and polymeric chiral selectors (38 papers). Only 13 research articles were on applications and most papers were on fundamental studies that showed separation of racemic drugs and other model compounds. Crown Copyright (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.