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Broadband dielectric spectroscopy as an experimental alternative to calorimetric determination of the solubility of drugs into polymer matrix: Case of flutamide and various polymeric matrixes

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Graphical abstract Figure. No Caption available. ABSTRACT In this paper we determined the solubility limits of the amorphous flutamide within the two different polymeric matrixes – poly vinylpyrrolidone and poly… Click to show full abstract

Graphical abstract Figure. No Caption available. ABSTRACT In this paper we determined the solubility limits of the amorphous flutamide within the two different polymeric matrixes – poly vinylpyrrolidone and poly vinylacetate. In order to achieve this goal, series of broadband dielectric spectroscopy measurements were performed. As a result we found that the maximal amount of the drug that can be successfully dissolved within the PVAc (maintaining the non‐supersaturated conditions) is equal to 35 wt% of the amorphous solid dispersion system. Interestingly enough similar results, in terms of solubility limits, were achieved utilizing significantly higher amount of the pharmaceutical – 71 wt% – in the PVP matrix. Accordingly, we established the following relationship in the solubility limits of the amorphous flutamide dispersed within examined polymer matrixes: PVP > PVAc. It is worth highlighting that in order to preserve the thermodynamic stability – one of the two contributors to the physical stability – drug loading in the amorphous solid dispersion system should not exceed its solubility limits. Hence, choosing appropriate amount of the polymer addition will determine if obtained system remains physically stable. Subsequently, we presented the “stability maps” for all investigated FL‐based ASD systems from which one might predict the stabilization effect exerted by certain amount of polymer.

Keywords: polymeric matrixes; solubility limits; broadband dielectric; solubility; spectroscopy; dielectric spectroscopy

Journal Title: European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics
Year Published: 2019

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