Diethyl tartrate

Diethyl tartrate
Skeletal formula of diethyl tartrate
Ball-and-stick model of the diethyl tartrate molecule
Identifiers
87-91-2 YesY
ChemSpider 104927 YesY
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PubChem 62333
Properties
C8H14O6
Molar mass 206.19 g·mol−1
Appearance colourless
Density 1.204 g/mL
Boiling point 280 °C (536 °F; 553 K)
low
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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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.[1]

References

  1. J. Gordon Hill, K. Barry Sharpless, Christopher M. Exon, and Ronald Regenye (1985). "Enantioselective Epoxidation of Allylic Alcohols: (2S,3S)-3-Propyloxiranemethanol". Org. Synth. 63: 66.; Coll. Vol. 7, p. 461
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