Gas Chromatographic Separation of Carbohydrate Enantiomers on a New Chiral Stationary Phase

Abstract

The direct separation of simple, volatile derivatives of enantiomeric sugars has been achieved for the first time by glass‐capillary gas chromatography of trifluoroacetyl derivatives on a temperature‐stable, chiral stationary phase. The usefulness of the new method was demonstrated on an hydrolyzate of the galactan of the snail Helix pomatia.