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2,2-bis(ethylsulfonyl)butane
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CAS Registry Number | 76-20-0 |
ATC code | None |
PubChem | CID: 6433 |
ChemSpider | 6193 |
UNII | 217727W28W |
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Formula | C8H18O4S2 |
Molecular mass | 242.356 g/mol |
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Trional (Methylsulfonal) is a sedative-hypnotic[1] and anesthetic drug with GABAergic actions[citation needed]. It has similar effects to sulfonal, except it is faster acting.[2]
History
Trional was prepared and introduced by Eugen Baumann and Alfred Kast in 1888.[3]
Appeared in Agatha Christie's "Murder On The Orient Express", "And Then There Were None" and other novels as a sleep inducing sedative, and in In Search of Lost Time (Sodom and Gomorrah) by Marcel Proust as an hypnotic.
See also
References
- ^ (1907). Merck's 1907 Index. N. Y.: Merck & Co., p. 448.
- ^ Sajous, Charles E. (1896). Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences
Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, v. 5, p. A-156. - ^ Drinkwater, H. (1924). Fifty years of medical progress, 1873-1922.
New York: The Macmillan Company, p. 40.
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