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Quantitative determination of crystallinity of alpha-lactose monohydrate by Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS)
Agota Gombás1, István Antal, Piroska Szabó-Révész
1Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, University of Szeged, H-6720, Eötvös u. 6, Szeged, Hungary.
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to determine quantitatively the crystallinity in crystalline/amorphous powder mixtures of lactose, to asses the capability of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) for quantitative determination of crystallinity and to compare the accuracy of the NIRS method with that of conventional X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD). Amorphous lactose was prepared by spray drying. Samples with different crystallinity were prepared by physical mixing of 100% amorphous and 100% crystalline materials. The samples were characterized by XRPD and NIRS. Analysis was performed on the data sets by multiple linear regression (MLR). There is a close correlation between the predicted and the actual crystallinity of physical mixtures of crystalline and amorphous lactose, determined by NIRS (R(2)=0.9994). NIRS results were compared to the XRPD using the same sample sets. The correlation coefficients was 0.9981. The results showed that NIRS is an useful method for accurately determining low quantities of the crystalline lactose in a physical mixture. Therefore, NIRS can be used for the quantitative determination of crystallinity of materials during pharmaceutical procedures.
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