The mole fraction solubility data
of N-acetyl-l-proline in 16 neat solvents
(water, methanol, ethanol, n-propanol, isopropanol, n-butanol, isobutanol, sec-butanol, n-pentanol, acetone, 2-butanone,
acetonitrile, dichloromethane, methyl acetate, ethyl acetate, and
1,4-dioxane) covering a temperature range of 283.15–323.15
K were measured by the static gravimetric method. The polymorphism
of N-acetyl-l-proline was investigated by
the powder X-ray diffraction test and the patterns show that there
are two polymorphs within the studied solid–liquid equilibrium
systems. The increasing temperature shows a positive effect on N-acetyl-l-proline solubility in all of the solvents
and the largest increasing rate is observed in acetonitrile with an
increase of 16-fold. The solubility behavior was found to be influenced
by five factors including polarity, hydrogen bonding, solvent–solvent
interactions, molecular construction, and viscosity. Two thermodynamic
models, i.e., the modified Apelblat model and the Yaws model, were
used for the correlation of solubility data. To evaluate the fitting
results, the average relative deviation (ARD) and root-mean-square
deviation (RMSD), as well as the Akaike information criterion (AIC)
and Akaike weights, were computed for each model.