als tested would lose purposeful behavior) correlates highly with their solubility in a par- ticular non-polar solvent akin to olive °V.". Thus, the 'Meyer-Overton correlation revealed that the anesthetic potency of a gas molecule correlates with its solubility in a non-polar, 'lipid-like', hydrophobic (i.e. wa

ccount for differences between mirror image chiral' anesthetic molecules", the 'cut-off' effect (lack of anesthetic effect of molecules which follow Meyer-Overton but are too large, e.g. increasing length of n-alcohols" or n-alkanes"), or the lack of anesthesia by temperature induced re-ordering in lipids whic