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Published on: October 24, 2017
Estimating relative stability of polymorphs by generation of configurational free energy phase diagram
Pratik Upadhyay1, Ajay K Dantuluri, Lokesh Kumar
1Department of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), S.A.S. Nagar, Punjab 160 062, India.
Abstract:
Relationship between two polymorphs is described to be either enantiotropic or monotropic with transition temperature/transition point (T(t) ) below the melting point (T(m) ) of the lower melting form in former case and above the T(m) of the higher melting form in latter case. In the present work, a new methodology for assessing thermodynamic T(t) of two polymorphs has been developed. Configurational free energy (G(c) ) of amorphous with respect to each polymorph was calculated to determine the T(t) . This method was used to determine the T(t) and polymorphic relationship of two model drugs, namely, carbamazepine and nateglinide. This method was also compared with the previous methodologies. Deduced T(t) of carbamazepine using this methodology was compared with previously reported values and was found to be in good agreement. A monotropic relationship was established between nateglinide polymorphs based on T(t) obtained by present methodology and previous reported methodologies.
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