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Enhancing the solubility of natural compound xanthotoxin by modulating stability via cocrystallization engineering

Jin-Yao Chen1, Hao Wu1, Chun-Yang Guo1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering; Engineering Research Centre of Pharmaceutical Process Chemistry, Ministry of Education; Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Crystal Engineering & Technology, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, No. 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China.

International Journal of Pharmaceutics
|November 4, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
CocrystalsCrystal structureSolubilityStabilityXanthotoxin

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