The new edition contains expanded treatment on preparative separation techniques and additional techniques, including electrophoresis, membrane separations, and biological assays. The 13 chapters were written by specialists affiliated with academic institutions and private industries in the US, Portugal, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and France. Written in a clear outline style, each chapter contains an introduction and comprehensive list of references. Topics include combinatorial approaches, membranes, nonchromatographic solid-phase purification of enatiomers, and international regulation of chiral drugs. Chemists and chemical engineers working with enantiopure products will be the volume's main audience.