CRC Handbook of Optical Resolutions via Diastereomeric Salt Formation

Roughly half of the several ten thousand pharmaceutical drugs currently known have a chiral structure. The need for drugs with fewer side effects and safer pesticides calls for efficient methods providing these compounds in enantiomerically highly pure forms. This is the first book to deal exclusively with all aspects, both theoretical and practical, of this important organic chemical process,. With an abundance of analyzed examples, this single book provides all of the information necessary to perform, develop, and optimize optical resolutions via diastereomeric salt formation, being still the most practical method to obtain enantiomerically pure products both on laboratory or industrial scale.