"Chirality occurs when a molecule's mirror-image is not the same as itself. It is ubiquitous in nature and its importance is acknowledged in different areas of science such as enantioselective synthesis, chiral drug designing and development, bio and environmental markers, chiral materials, quality control in pharmaceuticals, and food and fragrances. These areas have lately been increasingly relying on enantiomeric separation and methods to stereochemical elucidation. The advent of direct chiral separation by chromatography and related techniques has just completed half a century and it is nowadays used as routine in many laboratories around the world. A plethora of applications have been established in academia and in industry. Regarding methods for stereochemical elucidation, they are widespread used across biochemistry, chemistry, biology and physics but there is a clear need for streamlining their application for characterization of small chiral organic molecules."-- Provided by publisher.