Nalco Chemical Company

Vytas Narutis

Donald A Johnson

James F Kneller

Binaifer S Khambatta

Barbara E Fair

An improved method is disclosed for the preparation of novel alkali metal diphosphinate salts by the reaction of an acetylenic compound with an alkali metal hypophosphite in the presence of a free radical source, the use of these novel compounds in further reactions to prepare diphosphonate compounds and diphosphinate containing adducts, oligomers and polymers and utilization of these compounds, polymers and oligomers to control calcium carbonate scale and mild steel corrosion in cooling water.

Phosphinate compounds prepared from acetylenic compounds and inorganic

Method for the control of calcium carbonate scale using compounds

A phosphinate containing composition which has as its major ingredient more than 32 mole percent of a phosphinicosuccinic acid oligomer having the probable structural formula: ##STR1## M is H, Na, K, NH.sub.4, or mixtures thereof; and m and n are either 0 or a small whole number with the proviso that either m or n is a small whole number and the sum of m plus n is greater than 2.

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