title: Membranes and membrane processes for chiral resolution.
abstract: This critical review is devoted to an active field of research on chiral separation, membrane-based enantioseparation technique, which has potential for large-scale production of single-enantiomer compounds. Adsorption-type enantioselective membranes and membrane-assisted resolution systems with non-enantioselective solid membranes have attracted much attention recently. The principles and recent developments of both enantioselective liquid and solid membranes and membrane-assisted processes for chiral resolution will be summarized comprehensively in this review, in which the contents are of interest to a wide range of readers in a variety of fields from analytical, organic and medicinal chemistry, to pharmaceutics and materials, to process engineering for fabricating pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, fragrances and foods, and so on (148 references).
authors.affiliation: School of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610065, China.
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Liang-Yin
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.forename: Jin-Gen
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Deng
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D008956:Models, Chemical; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D009930:Organic Chemicals