Science and Education Publishing World Journal of Organic Chemistry 1 1 2013 04 23 Separation of the Enantiomers of Lactide, Lactic Acid Dimer, for a Sustainable Bioplastic Management 20 23 EN Nathalie Berezina Green Chemistry Department, Materia Nova R&D Center, Ghislenghien, Belgium Nicolas Landercy Pierre-Antoine Mariage Benoit Morea WJOC2013123 10.12691/wjoc-1-2-3 2013 01 07 2013 04 11 2013 04 23 Despite the small difference in the steric hindrance of the substitutes of the asymmetric carbon of the lactic acid, a way for the desymmetrization of the racemic mixture was discovered. Two possibilities have arisen: the synthesis and further separation of diastereoisomers with the (S)-2-methyl-1-butanol as chiral auxiliary and the kinetic discrimination during the esterification with the (R)-(-)-Myrtenol.