Enantiorecognition of tyrosine (Tyr) enantiomers is realized via chiral ligand exchange technology combined with electrochemistry. A natural polymer, sodium alginate (SA), is electrodeposited on a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) and adopted as the chiral selector to form a diastereoisomeric ternary complex of [(SA)Zn(II)(L-Tyr)] or [(SA)Zn(II)(D-Tyr)] in the presence of Zn(II). Due to the difference in steric hindrance during the formation of these two complexes, the chiral selector preferentially recognizes D-Tyr. The electrochemical enantiorecognition of Tyr enantiomers is characterized by cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), and the parameters affecting the recognition efficiency are also investigated.Enantioselective recognition of chiral compounds is of great importance for the food and medical industry, because the enantiomers of a chiral molecule may exhibit different or even opposite biological activities. 1,2 Current enantiomer recognition approaches mainly include molecular imprinting, 3,4 host-guest supramolecular chemistry, 5-7 and chiral ligand exchanging. 8,9 The principle of chiral ligand exchange is based on the diastereomeric ternary coordination formatted by chiral selector, metal ion and analyte. The commonly used chiral selectors in ligand exchange are one of the optical isomers of amino acids 10,11 or their derivatives 12,13 and bovine serum albumin (BSA), 14 however, large scale application has been precluded due to its prohibitive costs and vulnerability of amino acids and proteins denaturation under harsh conditions. Sodium alginate (SA), a polysaccharide from seaweeds, is a biocompatible, biodegradable, non-toxic and non-immunogenic natural polymer with natural chiral environment, 15 and SA and its composites have been widely used as food additives in food industry. [16][17][18] Recently, the inherent chirality of SA was utilized for selective separation of phenylalanine isomers via molecularly imprinted SA-based hybrid membranes, 19 showing the potential applications of SA as an excellent candidate in chiral recognition. Moreover, among the industrially attractive polysaccharide polymers, alginate is known to have high complex formation ability with various heavy metals such as Co(II) and Zn(II). 20,21 And therefore it strongly attracts us to apply SA as the chiral selector to form a diastereomeric ternary complex with metal ion and analyte for enantioselective recognition purpose, taking its natural chirality and strong coordination ability into account.Herein, we report on the electrochemical chiral recognition of tyrosine (Tyr) enantiomers via ligand exchange technology using SA as the chiral selector in the presence of Zn(II). Tyr isomers are chosen as the target molecules owing to their good electroactivity and great importance for human and herbivores bodies, 22,23 meanwhile, amino acids can form metal complexes with metal ions. 24,25 In this work, the complexes of Zn(II) and Tyr isomers are denoted as Zn(II)(LTyr) 2 and Zn(II)(D-Tyr) 2 since one Zn(II...