Abstract. The aim of this study was to design a novel felbinac (FEL) patch with significantly higher (P<0.05) skin permeation amount than the commercial product SELTOUCH® using ion-pair and chemical enhancer strategy, overcoming the disadvantage of the large application area of SELTOUCH®. Six complexes of FEL with organic amines diethylamine (DEA), triethylamine (TEA), N-(2′-hydroxyethanol)-piperdine (HEPP), monoethanolamine (MEtA), diethanolamine (DEtA), and triethanolamine (TEtA) were prepared by ion-pair interaction, and their formation were confirmed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), powder X-ray diffraction (pXRD), infared spectroscopy (IR), and proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy ( 1 H-NMR). Subsequently, the effect of ion-pair complexes and chemical enhancers were investigated through in vitro and in vivo experiments using rabbit abdominal skin. Results showed that FEL-TEA was the most potential candidate both in isopropyl palmitate (IPP) solution and transdermal patches. Combining use of 10% N-dodecylazepan-2-one (Azone), the optimized FEL-TEA patch achieved a flux of 18.29±2.59 μg/cm 2 /h, which was twice the amount of the product SELTOUCH® (J=9.18±1.26 μg/cm 2 /h). Similarly, the area under the concentration curve from time 0 to time t (AUC 0-t ) in FEL-TEA patch group (15.94±3.58 h.μg/mL) was also twice as that in SELTOUCH® group (7.31±1.16 h.μg/mL). Furthermore, the in vitro skin permeation results of FEL-TEA patch was found to have a good correlation with the in vivo absorption results in rabbit. These findings indicated that a combination of ion-pair and chemical enhancer strategy could be useful in developing a novel transdermal patch of FEL.KEY WORDS: chemical enhancer; felbinac-triethylamine (FEL-TEA); in vitro/in vivo correlation (IVIVC); ion-pair; transdermal patch.