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Jakub Rak1, Milan Jakubek, Robert Kaplánek
1Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic.
Abstract:
Cobalt bis(dicarbollide) derivatives are promising therapeutic agents however their utilization is complicated due to their low solubility and self-assembling in water. Earlier we have shown that their solubility can be increased by using of suitable biocompatible excipients--carriers of pharmaceutically active compounds. Expected mechanism of solubilization was disassembling of self-assemblies and complexation of unimers. Newly our results of time-dependent light scattering study correct this presumption. Poor solubility of all derivatives can be easily improved by using various excipients, however only heptakis(2,6-di-O-methyl)-β-cyclodextrin displays ability to disassemble self-assemblies of all derivatives and suppress their self-assembling. Surprisingly, the other excipients participate on formation of mixed assemblies of derivative/excipient complex or cover assemblies to make them more soluble without decreasing their size.
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