Anomalous salts of dibasic acids

An anomalous substituted-amine or quaternary ammonium salt of a dibasic acid wherein said salt is selected from the group consisting of salts containing two dibasic acid molecules per cation, RH.sub.3 Y.sub.2, and salts containing three dibasic acid molecules per two cations, R.sub.2 H.sub.4 Y.sub.3, wherein R is a quaternary ammonium or substituted-amine cation derived from the group consisting of tert-butylamine, tri-n-propylamine, N-ethylpiperidine, tetramethylammonium hydroxide and tetraethylammonium hydroxide, and H.sub.2 Y is a dibasic acid molecule chosen from the group consisting of adipic, fumaric, glutaric, maleic, phthalic, and succinic acids.