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Chemistry Forums for Students => Organic Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: RisingEastStar17 on February 03, 2022, 03:05:15 AM
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Other than making tartarate salts and acid-base extractions, what are some other uses of tartaric acid?
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I´ve used for chiral resolution by formation of diastereomeric salts (using benzoylated derivatives of TA), quenching LiAlH4 with NaK salt of TA, its used as a backbone of various chiral catalysts and ligands such as TADDOL derivatives, its used as an additive for Sharpless epoxidation.
Its also a suitable chiral building block for synthesis since it contains two stereocenters and the acids can be easily modified into other functional groups
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Make cream of tartar and bake some meringues!
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I think you can make a reagent from diethyl tartrate and sodium borohydride and this can reduce ketones to chiral alcohols.
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It's the primary acid in grape wine. It sometimes is added to other wines to balance the acidity and to give the wine a bit more acid if it needs it. I typically use acid blend which is a blend of tartaric, malic and citric acid, but tartaric acid can be used alone if you want to.