Emanuel Gil-Av honorary issue of Chirality

✍ Scribed by William F. Trager

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 208 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0899-0042
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-636x(1998)10:5<371::aid-chir1>3.0.co;2-9

✦ Synopsis

In the publisher's on-going program to honor recipients of the ''Chirality Medal,'' the current issue of Chirality is dedicated to the late Professor Emanuel Gil-Av of the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel. Professor Gil-Av and his students were the first to demonstrate the unexpected finding that enantiomeric separations could be achieved by gas chromatography using a chiral stationary phase. Since demonstration of that seminal discovery, knowledge of the principles and analytical methods to achieve successful enantiomeric separations has virtually exploded. The importance of this development to the biosciences and pharmaceutical industry can hardly be overstated and it is from this perspective that Professor Gil-Av's contributions must be viewed.

Our guest editor for this issue is Dr. Nelu Grinberg, a Research Fellow at Merck Research Laboratories and former Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Gil-Av. The entire editorial staff of Chirality would like to thank Nelu for his time and dedication in contacting and organizing the contributors for this special issue.