Chemistry:Trional

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Short description: Chemical compound
Trional
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FormulaC8H18O4S2
Molar mass242.35 g·mol−1
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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]

Cultural references

Appeared in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, and other novels such as John Bude's The Lake District Murder as a sleep-inducing sedative; and in In Search of Lost Time (Sodom and Gomorrah) by Marcel Proust as a hypnotic. Sax Rohmer also references trional in his novel Dope.

See also

References

  1. "Trional". Merck's 1907 Index. New York: Merck & Co.. 1907. p. 448. https://archive.org/stream/cu31924003469677#page/n465/mode/2up/. 
  2. "General Therapeutics". Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences (Philadelphia: F. A. Davis) 5: A-156. 1896. https://archive.org/stream/1896annualofuniv05philuoft/#page/n169/mode/2up. 
  3. Fifty years of medical progress, 1873-1922. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1924. p. 40. https://archive.org/stream/fiftyyearsofmedi00drin#page/40/mode/2up.