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paraldehyde

[pə′ral·də‚hīd]
(organic chemistry)
C6H12O3 Acetaldehyde polymer; colorless, flammable, toxic liquid, miscible with most organic solvents, soluble in water; melts at 12.6°C, boils at 124.5°C; used as a chemical intermediate, in medicine, and as a solvent.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Paraldehyde

 

a trimer of acetaldehyde. Colorless liquid, boiling point 1240C. The structure of paraldehyde is

The compound readily depolymerizes upon heating with a small quantity of sulfuric acid, and is thus a convenient storage form of acetaldehyde. Paraldehyde exhibits a weak narcotic effect.

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