Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Diethyl tartrate is an organic compound the ethyl ester of tartaric acid. It exists in both as a chiral isomer showing both left- and right-handed forms as well as a meso stereoisomer which is not chiral. The chiral isomer is far more common.In the Sharpless epoxidation diethyl tartrate and titanium isopropoxide form a chiral catalyst in situ.
