The present invention relates generally to perfluoroalkyl chiral auxiliary compounds and methods of manufacture. These compounds have the functionality to effectively support the synthesis of chiral compounds in single reactions, high-throughput parallel reactions, or combinatorial reactions The invention relates to two oxazolidinone chiral auxiliaries (1) and (2): wherein R.sub.f is a perfluoroalkyl group having the general formula (CH.sub.2).sub.x--C.sub.yF.sub.2y+1 where x=1-5 and y=4-10 and wherein B is an unfunctionalized aryl, alkyl or arylalkyl group in a preferred embodiment, x=2 and y=6 and B is derived from unfunctionalized amino acids The amino acids may be from either the D- or L-series, and are preferably enantiomerically pure or in very high enantiomeric excess in either configuration. ##STR00001##