Abstract

The permanent world-wide increase in therapeutic administration of racemic profens as easy available non-prescribed analgesic drugs and a common first-choice anti-inflammatory agents was recently linked with renewed interest in their beneficial use, also as enantiopure formulations, to treat and/or prevent a variety of human malignancies including its four major types as colorectal, breast, lung, and prostate cancer. This underlies the continuous need of selecting perfectly suited chiral separation methods of profens capable to determine nanolevels of a distomer in presence of the eutomer in a variety of complex biological and environmental media. Thus, current improvements for direct enantiomeric separations of profens by well defined supramolecular-based chiral HPLC and recently developed monolithic, combinatorial, bimodal and polymeric chiral stationary phases employing a modern supramolecular chirality concepts has been outlined in this review. The use of diverse supramolecular approaches for chiral HPLC as an easy accessible tool enabling fast development of nanoscale enantioselective, high-throughput and gradient screening procedures for in situ monitoring of stereoselective ADME properties of profens in range of anticancer drug discovery technologies has been also addressed.

Keywords: Enantiopure drugs, supramolecular chirality, chiral drug screening, performance of chiral separation, supramolecular devices, chirality sensing