“…The studies carried out on the relationships between the nature of the salt forming agent and the resulting salt cannot be reliable, from this point of view. For instance, increasing hydrophilicity of the counterion can easily be suggested as a simple remedy to increase the solubility in water of the resultant salt and was proposed in the case of erythromycin salts [10]. Also in the case of diclofenac, the need for a soluble salt opened the large field of the aliphatic amines as salt forming agents, different from the usual sodium or potassium hydroxides and, particularly, of those carrying hydroxy groups: with the hypothesis that the higher the hydrophilicity of the counterion, the higher the hydrophilicity of the resulting salt could be [1,3,11,12].…”