Da. Pflum et al., A large-scale synthesis of enantiomerically pure cetirizine dihydrochloride using preparative chiral HPLC, ORG PROC R, 5(2), 2001, pp. 110-115
Enantiomerically pure cetirizine can be prepared by preparative HPLC separa
tion of cetirizine amide, The amide has an alpha value of 2.76 (USP resolut
ion of 8.54) using a Chiralpak AD column, and 0.5 wt % of the amide (based
on packing material) can be injected per run.