The synthesis of the title compound, (1R,2R)‐1‐carboxy‐2‐[(3S)‐4,4‐dimethyl‐2‐oxotetrahydrofuran‐3‐yloxycarbonyl]ethane‐1,2‐diyl diacetate, C14H18O10, from diacetyltartaric acid anhydride and pantolactone gave two enantiomeric pairs and the crystal structure of the R,R,S enantiomer is presented here. The molecule consists of a hydrogen tartrate fragment in which the carboxyl group and the lactone ester group are in an anti conformation. In the crystal structure, molecules are linked into C(10) chains by an intermolecular O—H...O hydrogen bond and further by C—H...O interactions to form a layer structure with the second‐level graph‐set descriptor R22(8)[R44(26)].