No chromatography is necessary to separate a racemic alcohol into its enantiomers. A highly fluorinated acyl residue was tranferred in an enantiomer-selective manner onto a racemic alcohol in the presence of a lipase [Eq. (1)]. The labeled enantiomer was separated from the unlabeled one by a simple but very efficient partition between fluorous and organic phases.
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Hungerhoff et al. (2001) studied this question.