The long-term stability of pharmaceutical formulations of poorly-soluble drugs in polymers determines their bioavailability and therapeutic applicability. However, these formulations do not only often tend to crystallize during storage, but also tend to undergo unwanted amorphous-amorphous phase separations (APS). Whereas the crystallization behavior of APIs in polymers has been measured and modeled during the last years, the APS phenomenon is still poorly understood. In this study, the crystallization behavior, APS, and glass-transition temperatures formulations of ibuprofen and felodipine in polymeric PLGA excipients exhibiting different ratios of lactic acid and glycolic acid monomers in the PLGA chain were investigated by means of hot-stage microscopy and DSC. APS and recrystallization was observed in ibuprofen/PLGA formulations, while only recrystallization occurred in felodipine/PLGA formulations. Based on a successful modeling of the crystallization behavior using the Perturbed-Chain Statistical Associating Fluid Theory (PC-SAFT), the occurrence of APS was predicted in agreement with experimental findings.
Solvents
have an enormous impact on yield and turnover of chemical
reactions in complex media. There is, however, a lack of consistent
model-based tools to a priori identify the appropriate
solvent for homogeneously catalyzed reactions. Here, a thermodynamically
consistent approach for a reductive amination reaction is presented.
It combines solvent screening using a thermodynamic-activity model
and quantum chemical calculations. The optimization of activity coefficient-based
predicted kinetics gives a suitable list of candidate solvents. The
results were confirmed by batch experiments in selected solvents.
This approach allows reducing time and lab resources for solvent selection
to a minimum.
Solvents may significantly
affect the phase behavior and kinetics
of chemical reactions. Especially for complex reactions performed
in mixtures of different solvents, it requires a high experimental
effort to quantify these effects. This work focuses on a novel thermodynamic
approach to predict solvent effects on both reaction rates and phase
behavior. We applied this method to the homogeneously catalyzed hydroaminomethylation
of 1-decene in a thermomorphic multiphase system of methanol and n-dodecane. For that purpose, the thermodynamic activities
of the reactants and the liquid–liquid equilibrium of the multicomponent
reaction system were successfully modeled using the Perturbed-Chain
Statistical Associating Fluid Theory (PC-SAFT). An increasing concentration
of n-dodecane in the solvent mixture was predicted
not only to limit the working space for the reaction due to unwanted
phase separation but also to massively reduce the reaction rate. These
results were in good agreement with batch experiments and homogeneity
tests performed in this work. The approach is applicable to a wide
variety of liquid-phase reactions and thus is a valuable tool for
reducing the experimental effort to a minimum.
This work focuses on the measuring and modeling of phase equilibria
of interest for the hydroaminomethylation of 1-decene with syngas
(CO/H2) and diethylamine to N,N-diethylundecan-1-amine
and water in a solvent system of methanol and n-dodecane.
H2 solubilities were measured in undecanal and N,N-dimethyldodecan-1-amine at 343 and 363 K between 2 and
4 MPa via the isochoric saturation method. Vapor–Liquid equilibrium
data were measured for the binary systems methanol/N,N-diethylundecan-1-amine, 1-decene/diethylamine, and 1-decene/N,N-diethylundecan-1-amine at temperatures between 299 and
372 K and at pressures of 0.005, 0.018, 0.025, or 0.030 MPa. Liquid–Liquid
equilibria were measured in the ternary systems methanol/n-dodecane/diethylamine, methanol/n-dodecane/undecanal,
and methanol/n-dodecane/N,N-diethylundecan-1-amine
at 0.1 MPa and at temperatures ranging from 278.15 to 308.15 K. Measured
and available phase-equilibrium data from literature were modeled
using perturbed-chain polar statistical associating fluid theory.
This then allowed for modeling the Henry’s law constant for
H2 and CO in the liquid components (methanol, n-dodecane, 1-decene, diethylamine, undecanal, N,N-diethylundecan-1-amine, and water) at 373.15 and 393.15 K.
Vapor pressures of the biologically and industrially relevant amines 2-phenylethan-1-amine, 2-amino-1-phenylethanol, α-(methylaminomethyl)benzyl alcohol, 1-phenylmethanamine, and N,N-diethylundecan-1-amine were measured via the transpiration method. Pure-component parameters for the thermodynamic model PC-SAFT were fitted to these vapor pressures and to liquid densities. The pure-component parameters were validated with measured liquid densities of binary mixtures dimethylsulfoxid + 4-(2-aminoethyl)phenol, dimethylsulfoxid + 2-amino-1-phenylethanol, dimethylsulfoxid + α-(methylaminomethyl)benzyl alcohol, and dimethylsulfoxid + 1-phenylmethanamine at 0.102 MPa and temperatures from 298.15 to 343.15 K at different amine mass fractions. Solid−liquid equilibria at 0.1 MPa were measured in binary mixtures of α-(methylaminomethyl)benzyl alcohol + water and 4-(2-aminoethyl)phenol + water at 298.15 and 308.15 K. Finally, the presence of liquid−liquid phase separation for these systems was qualitatively predicted using PC-SAFT based on the solid−liquid equilibria only and validated for the system α-(methylaminomethyl)benzyl alcohol + water by experiments at 293.15 and 323 K at 0.1 MPa.
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