Trional

Trional

Clinical data
ATC code	none
Legal status
Legal status	US: Schedule III
Identifiers
IUPAC name 2,2-bis(ethylsulfonyl)butane
CAS Number	76-20-0 N
PubChem CID	6433
ChemSpider	6193 Y
UNII	217727W28W
CompTox Dashboard (EPA)	DTXSID7046411
ECHA InfoCard	100.000.858
Chemical and physical data
Formula	C8H18O4S2
Molar mass	242.35 g·mol−1
3D model (JSmol)	Interactive image
SMILES CCC(C)(S(=O)(=O)CC)S(=O)(=O)CC
InChI InChI=1S/C8H18O4S2/c1-5-8(4,13(9,10)6-2)14(11,12)7-3/h5-7H2,1-4H3 Y Key:LKACJLUUJRMGFK-UHFFFAOYSA-N Y
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Trional (Methylsulfonal) is a sedative-hypnotic and anesthetic drug with GABAergic actions. It has similar effects to sulfonal, except it is faster acting.

History

Trional was prepared and introduced by Eugen Baumann and Alfred Kast in 1888.

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

• Sulfonal
• Tetronal