A practical method for the determination of optical purity of secondary alcohols

A practical method using commercially available N-carbobenzoxy-L-phenylalanine(N-CBZ-Phe) as a potential homochiral derivatizing reagent for the determination of the enantiomeric composition of chiral secondary alcohols has been developed. The procedure is simple and its application to the determination of the enantiomeric composition of several optical secondary alcohols proved to be satisfactory