Fast chiral separations using sulfated β-cyclodextrin and short-end injection in capillary electrophoresis

The general applicability of sulfated β-cyclodextrin as chiral selector and short-end injection in capillary electrophoresis (CE) as a powerful screening tool for fast and efficient chiral separation of Ormeloxifene enantiomers and racemic Ormeloxifene analogues is demonstrated. Using the short-end injection procedure, all of the 16 racemic compounds studied were successfully separated with high efficiencies and with analysis times of less than 1.2 min. Furthermore, long-end injections of eight analogues named C1–C8 afforded separations with extremely high efficiencies. A statistical evaluation of the resolution values obtained in short-end and long-end injections of compounds C1–C8 showed that the sensitivity of the CE method towards structural changes in the studied molecules is intact when the chiral analysis is performed with short-end injection compared to conventional long-end injection.