title: Recent advances in chiral separation of amino acids using capillary electromigration techniques.
abstract: This review highlights recent progresses in the chiral recognition and separation of amino acid enantiomers obtained by capillary electromigration techniques, using different chiral selectors and especially cyclodextrins, covering the literature published from January 2010 to March 2014. Sections are dedicated to the use of derivatization reagents and to the possibility to enantioseparate underivatized amino acids by using either ligand exchange capillary electrophoresis (LECE) and capillary electrophoresis (CE) coupled on line with mass spectrometry. A short insight on frontier nanomaterials is also given.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biostructure and Bioimaging, National Research Council (CNR), via P. Gaifami 18, 95126 Catania, Italy. Electronic address: agiuffri@unict.it.
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giuffrida
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, viale A. Doria, 6, 95125 Catania, Italy.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Maccarrone
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, viale A. Doria, 6, 95125 Catania, Italy.
authors.forename: Vincenzo
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Cucinotta
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry "U. Schiff", University of Florence, Via U. Schiff 6, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy.
authors.forename: Serena
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Orlandini
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, viale A. Doria, 6, 95125 Catania, Italy. Electronic address: acontino@unict.it.
authors.forename: Annalinda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Contino
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods*; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids
keywords: Amino acids; Capillary electrochromatography; Capillary electrophoresis; Capillary electrophoresis–mass spectrometry; Chiral separations; Microchip electrophoresis