“…The selector Valdex (heptakis[6-O-(N -acetylyl-l-valine-tertbutylamide)-2,3-O-methyl]-β-cyclodextrin) represents a versatile chiral solvating agent (CSA) for the NMR spectroscopic discrimination of enantiomers which associate either with the permethylated cyclodextrin selector (e.g., for apolar trisubstituted allenes) or with the diamide selector (e.g., for polar 2-alkyl-α-amino acid derivatives) [164], but no remarkable enantioseparations of different classes of compounds were observed on Chirasil-Valdex in the GC mode. However, promising results have been obtained on a selector that carries only a single l-valine diamide moiety in the C6-position of permethylated β-cyclodextrin for enantioseparations by GC [165].…”