This preliminary study describes a one-step sonochemical formation of Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) microspheres and their chiral interaction with several amino acids. Partial separation between enantiomers of various amino acids was accomplished by the interaction of these microspheres with solutions of racemic amino acids. The highest rate of enantiomeric enrichment was attained for D,L-cysteine, where 59% enantiomeric excess (ee) of the L-cysteine was measured. This indicates the preferrential interaction of the BSA microspheres with the D-enantiomer of cystein. No chiral activity was observed for unsonicated BSA molecules. All other D,L-amino acids that were examined provided enrichment of the Denantiomer albeit in lower ee values. D,L-cysteine interacted with the BSA microspheres leading to L-enantioselective enrichment up to 59 % ee at room tempertaure and 72% at 5 8C. Chiral enrichment was also carried out succesfully with other protein microspheres such as Avidin microspheres. In this case up to 41 % ee was acheived on interaction with DLphenylalanine. Our simple and facile method opens a new window for enantiomeric separation of racemic compounds.Enantioselective separation of racemates still presents a significant challenge in multidisciplinary scientific research, and methods to obtain enantiomerically-enriched chiral compounds are important for the development of pharmaceuticals, [1] agrochemicals and food additives. Moreover, such materials can also function as supramolecular helices, [2] chiral sensors, [3][4][5] biomimetic materials, [6] chiral asymmetric catalysts, [7,8] and precursors in the design of bioactive chiral drugs. [1,9] More than half of the drugs currently in use are chiral compounds and yet, a large number of them are marketed as racemates so that chiral enrichment of racemic mixtures is important. However, chiral enrichment still relies in part on chromatographic techniques or selective crystallization. The interaction between proteins and simple racemic molecules leading to chiral enrichment has not yet been reported and is a highly desirable process. We report here the first examples of enantiomeric enrichment of amino acids by exposure of their racemates in solution to the chiral surfaces of microspheres of the protein bovine serum albumin (BSA), prepared by sonication. By contrast, no chiral separation was observed using unsonicated BSA molecules.Chirality is a key factor in many molecular recognition processes of naturally occurring materials, such as proteins, carbohydrates and DNA. [10,11] We envisioned that a readily available natural protein like BSA, which contains several Lamino acids, when transformed into solid microspheres, displaying exposed chiral surfaces, could interact enantioselectively with some D,L-amino acids in solution, resulting in chiral enrichment of one enantiomer by covalent or non-covalent interactions. Asymmetric non-covalent interactions play an important role in biocatalysis in nature. Recently, a great deal of progress has been achieved in exploiting ...