Crystallization of chiral compounds: thermodynamical, structural and practical aspects

Within a single family of aryl glycerol ethers and their simplest derivatives, examples of all known types of chiral crystallization, viz., conglomerates, racemic compounds, anomalous racemates and ideal and nonideal solid solutions have been found. A relationship was demonstrated between the crystal packing organization and chirality driven properties of organic substances, such as supramolecular gelation, capacity for enantiomeric enrichment and spontaneous resolution.