Downstream Processability of Crystal Habit-Modified Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient

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Downstream Processability of Crystal Habit-Modified Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient. / Pudasaini, Nawin; Upadhyay, Pratik Pankaj; Parker, Christian Richard; Hagen, Stefan U.; Bond, Andrew; Rantanen, Jukka.

In: Organic Process Research and Development, Vol. 21, No. 4, 2017, p. 571-577.

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Pudasaini, N, Upadhyay, PP, Parker, CR, Hagen, SU, Bond, A & Rantanen, J 2017, 'Downstream Processability of Crystal Habit-Modified Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient', Organic Process Research and Development, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 571-577. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.6b00434

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Pudasaini, N., Upadhyay, P. P., Parker, C. R., Hagen, S. U., Bond, A., & Rantanen, J. (2017). Downstream Processability of Crystal Habit-Modified Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient. Organic Process Research and Development, 21(4), 571-577. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.6b00434

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Pudasaini N, Upadhyay PP, Parker CR, Hagen SU, Bond A, Rantanen J. Downstream Processability of Crystal Habit-Modified Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient. Organic Process Research and Development. 2017;21(4):571-577. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.6b00434

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Pudasaini, Nawin ; Upadhyay, Pratik Pankaj ; Parker, Christian Richard ; Hagen, Stefan U. ; Bond, Andrew ; Rantanen, Jukka. / Downstream Processability of Crystal Habit-Modified Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient. In: Organic Process Research and Development. 2017 ; Vol. 21, No. 4. pp. 571-577.

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abstract = "Efficient downstream processing of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can depend strongly on their particulate properties, such as size and shape distributions. Especially in drug products with high API content, needle-like crystal habit of an API may show compromised flowability and tabletability, creating significant processability difficulties on a production scale. However, such a habit can be adapted to the needs of downstream processing. To this end, we modified the needle-like crystal habit of the model API 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA). This study reports processability assessment of six representative crystal habits of 5-ASA (needles, plates, rectangular bars, rhombohedrals, elongated hexagons, and spheroids) in the context of direct compression using ring shear tester, flow rate analyzer, and instrumented tablet press. As expected, needles were very cohesive, had low flow rate (1.0 ± 0.08 mg/s), and low bulk density (0.14 ± 0.01 g/mL) but showed better tabletability, whereas the opposite was observed with more isotropic crystal habits. For instance, spheroids, elongated hexagons, and rhombohedrals were easy/free-flowing and had high bulk densities (≥0.5 g/mL), but final tablets had lower tensile strength than that of needles. Of the six crystal habits, the plates showed a good compromise considering both flowability and tabletability.",
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