Amylose and cellulose cannot be used as such due to poor resolution and difficulty in handling. But the carbamate  and benzoate  derivatives of these polymers, especially amylose and cellulose, demonstrate excellent properties as chiral selectors for chromatographic separation. A large number of polysaccharide-based CSPs are commercially available for chiral separation. These CSPs showed tremendous chiral recognition capability to resolve a wide range of chiral analytes. Many of these CSPs have been marketed by Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd., and some of the popular ones are listed in the table. 
These CSPs are compatible with NP/RP and SFC and also used for analytical, semi-preparative and preparative separations. Many screening research studies conducted at different labs go to suggest that the four CSPs namely Chiralcel OD, Chiralcel OJ, Chiralpak AD, and Chiralpak As are capable of resolving more than 80% of the chiral separations due to their adaptability and high loading capacity. These four polysaccharide chiral stationary stationary phases are referred to as the "golden four".
Polysaccharide CSPs are prepared with high quality silica support on to which the polymeric chiral selector (amylose/cellulose dr.) is physically coated (coated CSP) or chemically immobilized (immobilized CSP). Separations can be done in normal phase, reversed-phase, and polar organic mode. While working with coated polysaccharide CSP solvent selection should be done with caution. One should not use drastic solvents such as dichloromethane, chloroform, toluene, ethyl acetate, THF; 1,4-dioxane; acetone; DMSO, etc. These so called "non-standard" solvents will dissolve the silica and irreversibly destroy the stationary phase. The limited resistance of these coated phases to many solvents lead to the development of immobilized  polysaccharide CSP.  The table below presents some of the immobilized CSP commercially available and with the alternates wherever accessible.
These immobilized CSP are much more rugged and the  "non-standard" solvents  can be employed. Thus expanding  the choice of co-solvent. The major strength of immobilized CSPs are high solvent versatility in selection of mobile phase composition, enhanced sample solubility, high selectivity, robustness and extended durability, excellent column efficiency, and broad application domain in the resolution of enantiomers. Solvent is a key factor in HPLC MD. More solvents to play with means better sample solubility, Improves resolution, and enables effective chiral method development.