Purpose Study on curcumin dissolved in natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) was aimed at exploiting their beneficial properties as drug carriers. Methods The concentration of dissolved curcumin in NADES was measured. Simulated gastrointestinal fluids were used to determine the concentration of curcumin and quantum chemistry computations were performed for clarifying the origin of curcumin solubility enhancement in NADES. Results NADES comprising choline chloride and glycerol had the highest potential for curcumin dissolution. This system was also successfully applied as an extraction medium for obtaining curcuminoids from natural sources, as well as an effective stabilizer preventing curcumin degradation from sunlight. The solubility of curcumin in simulated gastrointestinal fluids revealed that the significant increase of bioavailability takes place in the small intestinal fluid. Conclusions Suspension of curcumin in NADES offers beneficial properties of this new liquid drug formulation starting from excreting from natural sources, through safe storage and ending on the final administration route. Therefore, there is a possibility of using a one-step process with this medium. The performed quantum chemistry computations clearly indicated the origin of the enhanced solubility of curcumin in NADES in the presence of intestinal fluids. Direct intermolecular contacts leading to hetero-molecular pairs with choline chloride and glycerol are responsible for elevating the bulk concentration of curcumin. Choline chloride plays a dominant role in the system and the complexes formed with curcumin are the most stable among all possible homo- and hetero-molecular pairs that can be found in NADES-curcumin systems.
Dicarboxylic acids (DiAs) are probably among of the most popular cocrystal formers. Due to the high hydrophilicity and nontoxicity, they are promising solubilizers of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). Although DiAs appear to be highly capable of forming multicomponent crystals with various compounds, some systems reported in the literature are physical mixtures of the solid state without forming stable intermolecular complex. In this study, an accurate cocrystal screening model was developed based on the MARSplines (Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines) methodology and easily computable descriptors driven simply from the SMILES codes. Additionally, the data set was enriched with several new mixtures of sulfamethazine. As demonstrated, this sulfonamide can form new multicomponent crystals with oxalic, malonic, and maleic acids. In the case of the latter system, a significant 10-fold solubility advantage was observed. The whole data set comprised 608 cocrystals and 104 systems hardy miscible in the solid state, denoted as simple eutectics. The final 7-factor equation was subjected to external and internal validation procedures, which indicated its high predicting power. The reliability of the proposed approach can be illustrated by the proper classification probability of cocrystals reaching 91%. The classification quality of simple binary eutectics was found to be only slightly worse (TN% = 81%).
The multiparameter model comprising 1D and 2D QSPR/QSAR descriptors was proposed and validated for phenolic acid binary systems. This approach is based on the optimization of regression coefficients for maximization of the percentage of true positives in the pool of systems comprising either simple binary eutectics or cocrystals. The training set consisted of 58 eutectics and 168 cocrystals. The solid dispersions collection used for model generation comprised literature data enriched with our new experimental results. From all 1445 descriptors computable in PaDEL, only 13 orthogonal descriptors with the highest predicting power were taken into account. The analysis revealed the importance of the parameters characterizing atom types (naaN, SHsOH, SsssN, nHeteroRing, maxHBint6, C1SP2), autocorrelation functions (ATSC1i, AATSC1v, MATS8m, GATS1i), and also other molecule structure measures (WTPT-5, MLFER_A, MDEN-22). The proposed approach is very simple and requires only information about the structure encoded in canonical SMILES string. The inversion of the problem of cocrystal screening and focusing on the homogeneous group of coformers for cocrystallization with a variety of drugs rather than seeking coformers for a particular active pharmaceutical ingredient proved to be very efficient. This led to very valuable clues for selection of pairs for cocrystallization with a probability of about 80%.
In this study, a new degradation path of sunscreen active ingredient, 2-ethylhexyl-4-methoxycinnamate (EHMC) and 4-methoxycinnamic acid (MCA) in the presence of sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl), was discussed. The reaction products were detected using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Since HOCl treatment leads to more polar products than EHMC, application of polar extracting agents, dichloromethane and ethyl acetate/n-hexane mixture, gave better results in terms of chlorinated breakdown products identification than n-hexane. Reaction of EHMC with HOCl lead to the formation of C=C bridge cleavage products such as 2-ethylhexyl chloroacetate, 1-chloro-4-methoxybenzene, 1,3-dichloro-2-methoxybenzene, and 3-chloro-4-methoxybenzaldehyde. High reactivity of C=C bond attached to benzene ring is also characteristic for MCA, since it can be converted in the presence of HOCl to 2,4-dichlorophenole, 2,6-dichloro-1,4-benzoquinone, 1,3-dichloro-2-methoxybenzene, 1,2,4-trichloro-3-methoxybenzene, 2,4,6-trichlorophenole, and 3,5-dichloro-2-hydroxyacetophenone. Surprisingly, in case of EHMC/HOCl/UV, much less breakdown products were formed compared to non-UV radiation treatment. In order to describe the nature of EHMC and MCA degradation, local reactivity analysis based on the density functional theory (DFT) was performed. Fukui function values showed that electrophilic attack of HOCl to the C=C bridge in EHMC and MCA is highly favorable (even more preferable than phenyl ring chlorination). This suggests that HOCl electrophilic addition is probably the initial step of EHMC degradation.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s11356-015-5444-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Applicability of phenolic acids as potential cocrystal formers for methylxanthine derivatives was analyzed both in terms of cocrystallization probabilities and solubility advantage. The cocrystal formation abilities were evaluated using mixing enthalpy estimated within the conductor like screening model for real solvents (COSMO-RS) framework. The solubility improvement of potential cocrystals was estimated by formulation of the model relating experimental values to predicted solubilities. This enabled for ranking of potential cocrystals formers according to their solubility enhancement potential. According to the calculation results, a highly linear relationship (R 2 = 0.989) was found between estimated theophylline and caffeine cocrystal solubility values. It has been found that many phenolic acids, especially ones with several hydroxyl groups attached to phenyl ring, are the most promising candidates for cocrystallization with caffeine or theophylline. Experimental verification of the proposed protocol for caffeine and theophylline resulted in eight new molecular complexes, which were synthesized via a mechanochemical approach. All new solids were characterized using powder X-ray diffractometry and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy combined with a attenuated total reflection technique.
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