Tartaric acid is the most confusing chiral chemical, and the reason is because it was the first to be discovered to have chirality, so back in whatever 1700's the very first chiral chemical atrtaric acid was assigned l and d, then in it's next reinvention, they switched to L and D and switched. dextrotartaric acid is L-tartaric acid, also knon as the natural enantiomer. We've overcome tjhe ambiguaty by being more specific and the natural form of ta is 1R,2R, or just RR. The laboratory generated enantiomer is 1S, 2S, or SS and 1R,2S and 1S,2R are the mesomers, they are not optically active because they rotate and then rotate back for a net sum of 0 rotation