For chiral resolution(+)-Dibenzoyl-D-tartaric acid is used as a reagent in the preparation of chiral salts. It also serves as a reagent for chiral resolution of amino compounds
Preparation of carboxylic acid esters by modifying the hydroxylic moiety of the ester, such modification not being an introduction of an ester group by splitting-off hydrogen or functional groups; by hydrogenolysis of functional groups