Organic alkaline earth metal complexes and method of making same

Claim 1

A PROCESS WHICH COMPRISES PREPARING AND MIXING A MASS IN WHICH, AT 50* C., AT LEAST 50% OF THE COMPONENTS ARE IN THE LIQUID STATE, AND IN WHICH MASS THE ACTIVE COMPONENTS CONSIST OF: A. AN OIL-SOLUBLE ORGANIC ACID COMPOUND CONTAINING AT LEAST 12 CARBON ATOMS IN THE MOLECULE SELECTED FROM THE CLASS CONSISTING OF THE ALIPHATIC AND CYCLIC; SULPHUR ACIDS, CARBOXYLIC ACIDS, PHOSPHORUS ACIDS, THE THIO ACIDS CORRESPONDING TO ANY OF THE FOREGOING ACIDS, AND THE ALKALINE EARTH METAL SALTS OF ANY OF SAID ACIDS; B. AN ORGANIC COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE CLASS CONSISTING OF ENOLIC ORGANIC COMPOUNDS AND THE ALKALINE EARTH METAL SALTS THEREOF, SAID ENOLIC ORGANIC COMPOUNDS HAVING (1) AN IONIZATION CONSTANT IN WATER OF AT LEAST ABOUT 1X10-10 AT ABOUT 25* C.; (2) A WATER SOLUBILITY AT 50* C. OF AT LEAST ABOUT 0.0005%; AND (3) IN SATURATED AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS AT ABOUT 25* C. A PH OF LESS THAN 7; THE RELATIVE AMOUNTS OF A AND B USED BEING IN THE RANGE OF FROM ABOUT ONE EQUIVALENT OF A TO ABOUT 10 EQUIVALENTS OF B OF ABOUT 10 EQUIVALENTS OF A TO ABOUT ONE EQUIVALENT OF B; C. AN INORGANIC ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPOUND: (1) WHICH IS WATER-SOLUBLE AT A TEMPERATURE OF 50* C. TO THE EXTENT OF AT LEAST ABOUT 0.0003%; (2) IN AN AMOUNT SUCH THAT THERE ARE PRESENT IN THE MASS SUBSTANTIALLY MORE THAN 1 EQUIVALENT OF ALKALINE EARTH METAL, INCLUDING THE ALKALINE EARTH METAL PRESENT IN THE REMAINING COMPONENTS, PER EQUIVALENT OF A PLUS B; AND D. WATER IN AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO AT LEAST ABOUT ONE MOLE PER MOLE OF C; MAINTAINING THE MASS AT A TEMPERATURE AND FOR A PERIOD OF TIME SUFFICIENT TO DRIVE OFF SUBSTANTIALLY ALL FREE WATER AND WATER OF HYDRATION WHICH MAY BE PRESENT, AND FORM THE ORGANIC ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPLEX: AND THEN TREATING THE ORGANIC ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPLEX WITH AN ACIDIC MATERIAL OF WHICH THE IONIZATION CONSTANT IS HIGHER THEN THE IONIZATION CONSTANT OF THE ORGANIC SALT-FORMING COMPOUND OF COMPONENT B AND IN AMOUNTS SUFFICIENT TO LIBERATE A SUBSTANTIAL PROPORTION OF SAID ORGANIC COMPOUND OF COMPONENT B.