Chirality in drug research edited by Eric Francotte and Wolfgang Lindner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chiral drugs from a historical point of view / Joseph Gal -- Stereoselective synthesis of drugs : an industrial perspective / Hans-Jürgen Federsel -- Aspects of chirality in natural products drug discovery / Philipp Krastel, Frank Petersen, Silvio Roggo, Esther Schmitt, Ansgar Schuffenhauer -- Biotransformation methods for preparing chiral drugs and drug intermediates / Michael Müller, Marcel Wubbolts -- Resolution of chiral drugs and drug intermediates by crystallisation / Kazuhiko Saigo and Kenichi Sakai -- Isolation and production of optically pure drugs by enantioselective chromatography / Eric Francotte -- Stereoselective chromatographic methods for drug analysis / Norbert M. Maier, Wolfgang Lindner -- Capillary electrophoresis coupled to mass spectrometry for chiral drugs analysis / Serge Rudaz, Jean-Luc Veuthey -- Powerful chiral molecular tools for preparation of enantiopure alcohols and simultaneous determination of their absolute configurations by X-ray crystallography and/or ¹H NMR anisotropy methods / Nobuyuki Harada -- Keywords in chirality modeling : molecular modeling of chirality : software and literature research on chirality in modeling, chirality in docking, chiral ligand-receptor interaction and symmetry / Gerd Folkers, Mine Yarim, Pavel Pospisil.