Enantioresolution of Amino Acids: A Decade’s Perspective, Prospects and Challenges

Both from academic and industrial points of view enantioseparation of DL-amino acids continues to be a subject of immense importance and enjoys a great analytical significance in various fields, such as in the studies of fossils, origin of life, disease diagnosis, quality of food and beverages, etc. The present paper is a topical collection of recent advances along with a discussion on possible challenges in chiral amino acid analysis and is intended to present the existing state of knowledge on the topic as a particular facet of chromatography (and electrophoretic techniques). It presents a critical overview of the state-of-the-art of the topic, with critically selected examples to point the reader to trends and likely future developments and to give a selection of important references to the current literature.