  Electrostatic hexapoles are revealed as a powerful tool in the rotational
state-selection and alignment of molecules to be utilized in beam experiments
on collisional and photoinitiated processes. In the paper, we report results on
the application of the hexapolar technique on the recently studied chiral
molecules propylene oxide, 2-butanol and 2bromobutane, to be investigated in
selective photodissociation and enantiomeric discrimination.
