sjb I read that link before and it didn't tell anything about the physical properties of diastereoisomers.
discodermolide, your link, sadly confused me a bit, because on the scheme (R)(R) is a diastereoisomer with both (R)(S) and (S)(R), but I saw that there were same groups attached to both chiral centers, the I understood it.
So the diastereoisomers have different properties, and there will be different fractions, but the fractions are not optically active because they are racemates.
Thanks very much for helping me with this, I understand a lot more of diastereoisomers and enantiomers.