The paper is devoted to study some of the questions arises naturally in connection to the notion of relative derived categories. In particular, we study invariants of recollements involving relative derived categories, generalise two results of Happel by proving the existence of AR-triangles in Gorenstein derived categories, provide situations for which relative derived categories with respect to Gorenstein projective and Gorenstein injective modules are equivalent and finally study relations between the Gorenstein derived category of a quiver and its image under a reflection functor. Some interesting applications are provided.

To appear in Communications in Algebra