Recent Trends in the Separation of Chiral Drugs

Many of the currently used drugs in practice are mixtures of enantiomers. Although they have the same chemical structure, the enantiomeric forms of a drug can differ in potency, selectivity for receptors, transporters and / or enzymes, rate of metabolism, metabolites, excretion and toxicity, behavior in biological systems (like pharmacokinetics, bioavailability, efficacy and biopharmaceutical para…