[The crystallography behavior of carbamazepine under compression pressure]

In the present paper the crystallographic behavior of the carbamazepine modifications I, II and III were studied under various conditions by means of X-ray powder diffraction, IR-spectroscopy and differential-scanning-calorimetry. It was found that the crystal lattice of the carbamazepine modification I is relative stable to the applied pressure forms, whereas modification II under similar conditions undergoes a polymorphic transformation into carbamazepine modification III, the extent of which depends on compression pressure and storage time of the tablets. In the compression samples of carbamazepine modification III neither IR-spectroscopically nor X-ray-diffractionally an influence of the pressure could be found on growing up of the enantiotrophic modification I.