The insecticide properties of "multiple chlorinated aliphatic or fat-aromatic alcohols with at least one trichloromethane group" were described in a patent in 1934 by Wolfgang von Leuthold.
As súas propiedades como insecticida "alifático clorado múltiple ou alcohois lipo-aromáticos con polo menos un grupo triclorometano" describíronse nunha patente de 1934 de Wolfgang von Leuthold.