Borg-warner Chemicals, Inc.

Lee Cherney

Yuval Halpern

Roger K Nibert

A composition is provided which comprises a carrier medium and a spirodiphosphate described by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein X and X' are independently selected from the group consisting of oxygen and sulfur; and Z and Z' are independently selected from the group consisting of organic moieties attached to phosphorus through one of oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen and carbon.

Spirodiphosphate-containing working substances

A spirodiphosphoamidate-type composition is provided, wherein the composition is represented by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein A and A' are independently selected from the group consisting of oxygen and sulfur; R.sup.1 and R.sup.3 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, aliphatic, oxyaliphatic, polyoxyaliphatic, cycloaliphatic and aromatic moieties; and R.sup.2 and R.sup.4 are independently selected from the group consisting of C.sub.13 and larger aliphatic, oxyaliphatic, polyoxyaliphatic and aliphatic substituted aryl groups.

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Lee Cherney