Chiral primary amines, chiral 1,2-, 1,3-and 1,4-diols have many important chemical and pharmaceutical applications, and as a consequence, a wide range of methodologies have been developed for their asymmetric synthesis.Therefore, the development of inexpensive chiml derivatisation protocols that enable their enantiomeric excess (ee) to be simply determined by NMR spectroscopic analysis is currently of great interest to the synthetic community.The most widely used chiral derivatizing agent (CDA) for determining the enantiomeric purity of chiral amines and diols using NMR spectroscopy involves derivatisation to afford either MTPA (Mosher) or MPA (Trost)amides or esters respectively.