Knockout drops

When dissolved in water, trichloroacetaldehyde (chloral, CCJ3CHO) exists primarily as chloral hydrate, CCl CHCOH, better known as "knockout drops." Show the structure of chloral hydrate. [Pg.707]

By the autumn of 1939, Muller had tested 349 compounds. For his 350th compound, Muller combined the soporific chloral—the active ingredient in Mickey Finn knockout drops—with chlorobenzene and a catalyst, sulfuric acid. His product was dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, later known worldwide as DDT ... [Pg.153]

Note Chloral Hydrate is more commonly known as knockout drops. It really is not a recreational drug, and should not be used as such. [Pg.106]

CHLORAL HYDRATE. (Knockout drops.) Transparent crystals with aromatic, acrid odor, poisonous, used as medicine. [Pg.143]

Write an electron-dot structure for chloral hydrate, also known in detective novels as "knockout drops."... [Pg.294]

Used to induce sleep also known as knockout drops ... [Pg.573]

These stability effects are apparent in the equilibrium constants for hydration of ketones and aldehydes. Ketones have values of Keq of about 10-4 to 10-2. For most aldehydes, the equilibrium constant for hydration is close to 1. Formaldehyde, with no alkyl groups bonded to the carbonyl carbon, has a hydration equilibrium constant of about 40. Strongly electron-withdrawing substituents on the alkyl group of a ketone or aldehyde also destabilize the carbonyl group and favor the hydrate. Chloral (trichloroacetaldehyde) has an electron-withdrawing trichloromethyl group that favors the hydrate. Chloral forms a stable, crystalline hydrate that became famous in the movies as knockout drops or a Mickey Finn. [Pg.848]

Another downer, chloral hydrate, is the oldest sleeping drug still in medical use. Although rare today, abuse of it was not uncommon in the last century. Slipped into alcoholic drinks, it was the notorious "Mickey Finn" or "knockout drops" used to drug unsuspecting people into unconsciousness in order to rob or shanghai them. [Pg.72]

The compound so formed, chloral hydrate, was discovered by Liebig in 1832 and was introduced as one of the first sedatives and hypnotics (sleep-inducing substances) in 1869. It is now most commonly encountered in detective fiction as a Mickey Finn or knockout drops. ... [Pg.302]

The most common variation to the API, ASTM, and IP methods for field use is the addition of demulsifier or knockout drops to facilitate the separation of the phases. The demulsifier is generally added at concentrations significantly above what would be normal operational levels. The disadvantages of this technique are that it does not separate the water and solids, and it is not useful for very high-water-content streams. Filling the centrifuge tube with a representative sample can also be difficult, especially with viscous emulsions. [Pg.86]

Fill two 12-mL centrifuge tubes with 50% (6 mL) of xylene or gasoline. To one tube add two drops of a 20% knockout drops solution. Agitate the sample well, and fill both tubes to 100% with crude oil to be tested. Mix well. Spin in centrifuge for 5 min. Record on test sheet the amount of water and basic sediment in the tube without chemical and the amount of water in the tube with chemical. [Pg.365]

The first process for maXing chloral hydrate (knockout drops) is from Dick s formulary. 1872,... [Pg.27]

Knockout drops arc usually ven to someone when he is a little drunk. After fifteen minutes he is out for the night. [Pg.27]

Synonyms Noctec Knockout drops Mickey finn Choral Hydrated choral Chloralex Chloralvan Novochlorhydrate Chloraldural Chloraldurat Tricholralacetaldehyde, hydrated Trichloroethylidene glycol 2,2,2-Trichlorethane-1,1-diol... [Pg.535]

PROBLEM 17.5 Chloral is one of the common names for trichloroethanal. A solution of chloral in water is called chloral hydrate this material has featured prominently in countless detective stories as the notorious "Mickey Finn" knockout drops. Write a structural formula for chloral hydrate. [Pg.664]

Acetaldehyde can be converted into the sedative chloral hydrate (the Mickey Finn or knockout drops often mentioned in detective stories). In the first step of the reaction that forms chloral hydrate, acetaldehyde, CH3CHO, changes to its isomer, CH2CHOH. Draw a reasonable Lewis structures for each of these isomers. [Pg.464]

CHLORAL HYDRATE Knockout drops Mickey Finn... [Pg.77]

Beilstein Handbook Reference) AI3-00082 Aquachloral Bi 3411 BRN 1698497 Caswell No. 168 CCRIS 4142 Chloradorm Chloral hydrate Chloral monohydrate Chloraldural Chloraldurat Chloralex Chloral Hydras Chloralvan Cohidrate DEA No. 2465 Oormal EINECS 206-117-5 EPA PesScide Chemical Code 268100 Escre Felsules HSDB 222 Hydrate de chloral Hynos Kessodrate Kloralhydrat Knockout drops Lorinal Noctec ... [Pg.126]

Chloral hydrate ( knockout drops ) is found to have the molecular formula C2H3CI3O2. [Pg.7]

Synonyms cas 302-17-0 knockout drops trichlor acetaldehyde hydrated trichloroethylidene glycol Chlorbenside... [Pg.89]

Chloral hydrate Is the Infamous knockout drops of Agatha Christie or the Mickey Finn of prohibition gangsters. [Pg.134]

The compound chloral hydrate, known in detective stories as knockout drops, is composed of 14.52% C, 1.83% H, 64.30% Cl, and 19.35% O by mass and has a molar mass of 165.4 g/mol. (a) What is the empirical formula of this substance (b) What is the molecular formula of this substance (c) Draw the Lewis structure of the molecule, assuming that the Cl atoms bond to a single C atom and that there are a C—C bond and two C—O bonds in the compound. [Pg.329]

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