Barium-cadmium organic complexes as stabilizers for halogen-containing resins

Claim 1

A STABILIZED HALOGEN-BEARING POLYMERIC COMPOSITION COMPRISING A HALOGEN-BEARING POLYMERIC MATERIAL CONTAINING AN AMOUNT, SUFFICIENT TO STABILIZE SAID POLYMERIC MATARIAL AGAINST DETERIORATION, A BARIUM- AND CADMIUMCONTAINING ORGANIC COMPLEX MADE BY THE PROCESS WHICH COMPRISES PREPARING A MIXTURE COMPRISING: (A) FROM ABOUT 0.1 TO ABOUT 50 EQUIVALENTS OF AN ALCOHOL, (B) ONE EQUIVALENT OF AN ALIPHATIC MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ALIPHATIC MONOCARBOXYLIC ACIDS CONTAINING AN AVERAGE OF AT LEAST ABOUT 6 CARBON ATOMS AND THE BARIUM AND CADMIUM SALTS THEREOF, (C) AT LEAST ABOUT 0.1 EQUIVALENT OF A BARIUM BASE, AND (D) AT LEAST ABOUT 0.1 EQUIVALENT OF A CADMIUM BASE, THE AMOUNT OF BARIUM BASE AND CADMIUM BASE IN THE MIXTURE BEING SUFFICIENT TO PROVIDE A TOTAL OF AT LEAST ABOUT 1.1 EQUIVALENTS OF BRIUM AND CADMIUM PER EQUIVALENT OF COMPONENT (B). REMOVING SUBSTANTIALLY ALL WATER FROM SAID MIXTURE AND THEN TREATING SAID MIXTURE WITH AT LEAST ABOUT (X-Y) EQUIVALENTS OF CARBON DIOXIDE, WHERE X REPRESENTS A TOTAL EQUIVALENTS OF BARIUM AND CADMIUM IN THE MIXTURE AND Y REPRESENTS THE EQUIVALENTS OF COMPONENT (B),