(S)-Trolox™ Methyl Ether: a Powerful Derivatizing Reagent for the GC Determination of the Enantiomers of Aliphatic Alcohols

Willy Walther; Walter Vettert; Max Vecchi; Heinz Schneider; Robert Karl Müller; Thomas Netscher

doi:10.2533/chimia.1991.121

(S)-Trolox™ Methyl Ether: a Powerful Derivatizing Reagent for the GC Determination of the Enantiomers of Aliphatic Alcohols

Authors

Willy Walther
Walter Vettert
Max Vecchi
Heinz Schneider
Robert Karl Müller
Thomas Netscher

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.1991.121

Abstract

(S)-Trolox™ methyl ether 5a prepared from the racemic commercial antioxidant Trolox™ is presented as a new chiral reagent for the GC analysis of stereoisomeric primary and secondary alcohols. The superiority to the hitherto known reagents is demonstrated by some examples.