Measurement of Minute Liquid Volumes of Chiral Molecules Using In-Fiber Polarimetry

Anal Chem. 2023 Feb 14;95(6):3204-3209. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c03347. Epub 2023 Jan 31.

Abstract

We report an optofluidic method that enables to efficiently measure the enantiomeric excess of chiral molecules at low concentrations. The approach is to monitor the optical activity induced by a Kagome-lattice hollow-core photonic crystal fiber filled with a sub-μL volume of chiral compounds. The technique also allows monitoring the enzymatic racemization of R-mandelic acid.