Edetate Sodium → Dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate

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For comparison purposes, a terpolymer outside the scope of applicants' invention was prepared and tested. Into a 1 liter resin reaction flask fitted with a stirrer, thermometer, condenser, nitrogen inlet and a port for adding liquid, is placed 470.1 g of deionized water, 75.2 g of a 50% solution of acrylamide, 350 g of a 50% solution of AMPS, 37.6 g of N, N-dimethylacrylamide and 0.1 g of Versene 100. The solution is stirred and to it added a solution of 0.5 g of sodium hypophosphite dissolved in 16 g of deionized water. The solution is sparged sub-surface with nitrogen and then heated to 72° C. with an external heating jacket. A solution of 0.4 g of ammonium persulfate dissolved in 50 g of deionized water is prepared and placed in a metering pump connected to the flask at the inlet part with a fine bore tygon tubing. The persulfate solution is added uniformly to the flask over a period of three hours, maintaining a temperature of 72 ° C.±2° C. in the reactor by initially cooling and then warming. After the persulfate solution is added, the 72° C. temperature is maintained for an additional hour, then the solution is cooled to about 40 C and discharged. The resulting product was a clear, very pale yellow, viscous liquid with a solids content of 25%. The viscosity, as measured on a Brookfield viscometer, was 21,300 cps, spindle 4, speed 12. The pH of the solution was 3.0.

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