Enantioselective Separation of Racemic Mixtures Using Carbon Nanoparticles

Dr. Pan from the University of IL has developed chirally active carbon nanoparticles that have shown to be highly enantioselective adsorbants. This technology is very useful for separating racemic mixtures when a specific enantiomer is targeted. 

This technology is a cost effective means of chiral resolution which does not suffer from the toxicity and reactivity issues that other chiral nanoparticles do. 

Publication: 
Guru Raja Vulugundam, Santosh K. Misra, Fatemeh Ostadhossein, Aaron S. Schwartz-Duval, Enrique A. Daza, Dipanjan Pan: "(-)/(+)-Sparteine Induced Chirally-active Carbon Nanoparticles for Enantioselective Separation of Racemic Mixtures", Chem. Commun., May 16, 2016.