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1 From the Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
By reaction of chloral with d- and with l-arabinose, four isomeric arabinochloraloses (two pairs of antipodes) have been obtained.
The four compounds have been tested as anesthetics in mice.
-l-Arabinochloralose is much more active than its antipode.
-d-Arabinochloralose is somewhat more active than its antipode.
The significance of the unequal activity of the antipodes in relation to the theories of narcosis is discussed.
Submitted on May 16, 1940