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Solid-State Transformations of Sulfathiazole Polymorphs: The Effects of Milling and Humidity
The effect of milling on the transitions
of sulfathiazole polymorphs
in the absence and presence of solvent and excipients was monitored
by X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD), attenuated total reflectance infrared
(ATR-IR), and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy. Sulfathiazole forms
FII–FV undergo a transformation toward the metastable FI, which
involves an intermediate amorphous stage upon milling at ambient temperature.
Milling the commercial form (FC) with catalytic amounts of solvent
converts it to pure FIV or to mixtures of FI and FIV depending on
the solvent used. Pure FIV can be easily prepared from FC by this
method. The physical stability of nonmechanically activated pure sulfathiazole
forms in the presence of different levels of relative humidity (RH)
was also investigated. At low RH, all sulfathiazole forms are kinetically
stable, but at RH levels above 70% FII, FC and FIV remain stable,
while FI and FV transform to mixtures of FII and FIV without any apparent
change in the external form of the crystals. Comilling FC with a range
of excipients gave results that depended on the excipient used, and
comilling with cellulose gave samples that had an amorphous content
that was stable at 10% RH for at least nine months at ambient temperature
Demonstrating the Influence of Solvent Choice and Crystallization Conditions on Phenacetin Crystal Habit and Particle Size Distribution
Phenacetin was used as a model pharmaceutical
compound to investigate
the impact of solvent choice and crystallization conditions on the
crystal habit and size distribution of the final crystallized product.
The crystal habit of phenacetin was explored using crash-cooling crystallization
(kinetically controlled) and slow evaporative crystallization (thermodynamically
controlled) in a wide range of organic solvents. In general, a variety
of needle-type shapes (needles, rods, or blades) were recovered from
fast-cooling crystallizations, in contrast to hexagonal blocks obtained
from slow evaporative crystallizations. The solubility of phenacetin
was measured in five solvents from 10–70 °C to allow for
the design of larger-scale crystallization experiments. Supersaturation
and the nucleation temperature were independently controlled in isothermal
desupersaturation experiments to investigate the impact of each on
crystal habit and size. The crystal size (needle cross-sectional area)
decreased with increasing supersaturation because of higher nucleation
rates at higher supersaturation, and elongated needles were recovered.
Increasing the nucleation temperature resulted in the production of
larger crystals with decreased needle aspect ratios. Antisolvent phenacetin
crystallizations were developed for three solvent/antisolvent systems
using four different antisolvent addition rates to simultaneously
probe the crystal habit and size of the final product. In general,
increasing the antisolvent addition rate, associated with increased
rate of generation of supersaturation, resulted in the production
of shorter needle crystals