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chloral hydrate
Sign in to saveAlso known as trichloroacetaldehyde hydrate, 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-dihydroxyethane, 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-ethanediol, 2,2,2-trichloro-1,1-ethanediol, chloral monohydrate
chemical compound
Chemical data
- Formula
- C2H3Cl3O2
- Molecular weight
- 165.4 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 2,2,2-trichloroethane-1,1-diol
- SMILES
- C(C(Cl)(Cl)Cl)(O)O
- InChIKey
- RNFNDJAIBTYOQL-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 1
- Polar surface area
- 40.5 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 2
- H-bond acceptors
- 2
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Max clinical phase
- Approved
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
- Indications
- anxiety, brain disease, Dementia, depressive disorder
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Research
4,856 papers- Chloral Hydrate's Impact on Brain Development: From Clinical Safety to Molecular Mechanisms.Drug design, development and therapy · 2025
- Chloral hydrate: the good and the bad.Pediatric emergency care · 1999
- Chloral and chloral hydrate.IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans · 1995
- Should chloral hydrate be banned?Pediatrics · 1993
- Potential carcinogenicity of chloral hydrate--a review.Journal of toxicology. Clinical toxicology · 1995
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- organochlorine compound
- Has part
- chlorine
- Mass
- 163.919862
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- melting point
- 51.7
- Commons category
- Chloral hydrate
- chemical formula
- C₂H₃Cl₃O₂
- canonical SMILES
- C(C(Cl)(Cl)Cl)(O)O
- decomposition point
- 98
- subject has role
- carcinogen
- MCN code
- 2905.59.10
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- density
- 1.91
- has characteristic
- bitterness
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