“…Apart from early crystallographic work on the structures including determination of absolute configuration (van Bommel & Bijvoet, 1958), accurate structure determinations have only been completed quite recently [Templeton & Templeton (1978) (Cs); Buschmann & Luger (1985) and Akkurt, Hokelek & Soylu (1987) (K); Templeton & Templeton (1989) (Rb)]. Sodium hydrogen (+)-tartrate is not one of the isomorphous set and although the unit-cell parameters and space group have been reported for the monohydratet (Zholanov, Umanskii, Barfolomeeva, Eshkova & Zolina, 1956), its crystal structure has not previously been determined.…”