A new method to determine drug-polymer solubility through enthalpy of melting and mixing
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A new method to determine drug-polymer solubility through enthalpy of melting and mixing. / Meiland, Peter; Larsen, Bjarke Strøm; Knopp, Matthias Manne; Tho, Ingunn; Rades, Thomas.
In: International Journal of Pharmaceutics, Vol. 629, 122391, 2022.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - A new method to determine drug-polymer solubility through enthalpy of melting and mixing
AU - Meiland, Peter
AU - Larsen, Bjarke Strøm
AU - Knopp, Matthias Manne
AU - Tho, Ingunn
AU - Rades, Thomas
N1 - Funding Information: The travel expenses for this study were supported by NordForsk for the Nordic University Hub project Nordic POP (No. 85352, Denmark).
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In this study, a new method to determine the solubility of crystalline drugs in (amorphous) polymers is proposed. The method utilizes annealing of supersaturated amorphous solid dispersions to achieve equilibrium between dissolved and recrystallized drug. By measuring the enthalpy of melting and mixing (Hm+mix) of the recrystallized drug, the equilibrium solubility of the drug in the polymer at the annealing temperature is determined. The equilibrium solubilities at these elevated temperatures were used to extrapolate to room temperature using the Flory-Huggins model. The new Hm+mix method showed solubility predictions in line with the melting point depression (MPD) and recrystallization (RC) methods for indomethacin (IMC) -polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP). For IMC-hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC), the MPD method plateaued rapidly, leaving only one usable data point. The RC method showed large variations in the solubility predictions possibly due to a narrow glass transition temperature (Tg) window or inaccurate Tg determination. In contrast, the new Hm+mix method showed robust solubility prediction over the entire annealing temperature range with low variation and narrow error margins after extrapolation for both drug-polymer systems. The new Hm+mix method was able to accurately determine the drug-polymer solubility of IMC-HPMC, showing promise as a new tool to determine the solubility of problematic drug-polymer systems.
AB - In this study, a new method to determine the solubility of crystalline drugs in (amorphous) polymers is proposed. The method utilizes annealing of supersaturated amorphous solid dispersions to achieve equilibrium between dissolved and recrystallized drug. By measuring the enthalpy of melting and mixing (Hm+mix) of the recrystallized drug, the equilibrium solubility of the drug in the polymer at the annealing temperature is determined. The equilibrium solubilities at these elevated temperatures were used to extrapolate to room temperature using the Flory-Huggins model. The new Hm+mix method showed solubility predictions in line with the melting point depression (MPD) and recrystallization (RC) methods for indomethacin (IMC) -polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP). For IMC-hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC), the MPD method plateaued rapidly, leaving only one usable data point. The RC method showed large variations in the solubility predictions possibly due to a narrow glass transition temperature (Tg) window or inaccurate Tg determination. In contrast, the new Hm+mix method showed robust solubility prediction over the entire annealing temperature range with low variation and narrow error margins after extrapolation for both drug-polymer systems. The new Hm+mix method was able to accurately determine the drug-polymer solubility of IMC-HPMC, showing promise as a new tool to determine the solubility of problematic drug-polymer systems.
KW - Amorphous solid dispersion (ASD)
KW - Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
KW - Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC)
KW - Indomethacin (IMC)
KW - Melting point depression (MPD) method
KW - Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP)
KW - Recrystallization (RC) method
KW - Solubility
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2022.122391
DO - 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2022.122391
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 36379397
AN - SCOPUS:85142871579
VL - 629
JO - International Journal of Pharmaceutics
JF - International Journal of Pharmaceutics
SN - 0378-5173
M1 - 122391
ER -
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