Carvedilol is a drug for the treatment
of congestive heart failure
whose solubility in solvent and crystallization process are poorly
understood. In this study, the solubilities of carvedilol in water,
ethanol, acetone, tetrahydrofuran, methyl alcohol, ethyl acetate,
(water + ethanol), (water + acetone), and (water + tetrahydrofuran)
binary mixtures were measured in the temperature range from 278.15
to 313.15 K under atmospheric pressure by the gravimetric method.
The experimental values have indicated that increasing temperature
can improve the solubility of carvedilol in all selected binary solvents.
To correlate the solubility data of carvedilol, the Buchowski–Ksiazaczak
λh model was used to fit the solubility data
of all pure solvents, while the solubility data of all binary solvent
mixtures were fitted by the modified Apelblat equation, general cosolvency
model, and Jouyban–Acree model. The results show that the modified
Apelblat equation in binary mixed solvents has the lowest mean deviation
and can be used as the optimal model for data fitting.