The
solubility of two erlotinib hydrochloride polymorphs (form
A and form B) in methanol, ethanol, isopropanol, acetone, methyl ethyl
ketone, and methyl isobutyl ketone from 273.15 to 323.15 K were determined
by means of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The modified
Apelblat equation and the Buchowski–Ksiazczak λh equation were used to correlate the experimental solubility
data. The results showed that the solubility of both forms generally
increased with the temperature and at a given temperature decreased
with the increase of the carbon number of alcohols; furthermore, methyl
isobutyl ketone showed the largest solubility in the studied ketones.
Meanwhile form A had a higher solubility than form B which demonstrated
that form A was the metastable form. Furthermore, both models mentioned
above gave satisfactory correlation results, in which the modified
Apelblat equation worked better than the Buchowski–Ksiazczak
λh equation.
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