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.

Lipase-catalyzed acylation of racemic alcohols with a highly fluorinated acyl donor allows their kinetic resolution accompanied by the simultaneous enantiomer-selective fluorous phase labeling. Both the tagged and the untagged enantiomer can be separated without chromatography by a very efficient partition between a fluorous and an organic phase. The method has been successfully applied to the resolution of typically racemic secondary alcohols of low molecular weight. The fluorous label can be recovered quantitatively.

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