“…Davankov et al (1980Davankov et al ( , 1981 modified commercial HPLC columns by grafting alkyl derivatives of a-amino acids such as n-decyl-L-histidine or n-hexa decyl-Lproline onto the resin for enantiomeric resolution. Gübitz et al (1979Gübitz et al ( , 1981Gübitz et al ( , 1982 adapted this principle to HPLC using silica gel phases to which amino acid(s) were chemically bonded. Since then several papers dealing with different applications of chiral Ligand Exchange Chromatography (LEC) have appeared wherein Cu(II) complexes of optically pure a-amino acids and their derivatives have been applied as CSPs, usually after binding covalently or hydrophobically to solid column support (Davankov, 1988(Davankov, , 1994(Davankov, , 2000(Davankov, , 2003Kurganov, 2001).…”