Secobarbital sodium (marketed by Eli Lilly and Company and subsequently by other companies as described below under the brand name Seconal) is a barbiturate derivative drug that was patented in 1934 in the US. It possesses anaesthetic anticonvulsant anxiolytic sedative and hypnotic properties. In the United Kingdom it was known as Quinalbarbitone.
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