L-(+)-Tartaric acid is widely utilized in pharmaceutical industries. It is used in soft drinks, confectionaries, food products, gelatin desserts and buffering agents. It forms a compound, TiCl₂(O-i-Pr)₂ with Diels-Alder catalyst and act as a chelate agent in metal industries. Owing to its efficient chelating property towards metal ions, it is used in the farming and metal industries for complexing micronutrients and for cleaning metal surfaces, respectively.

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