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Wahlberg N, Madsen AØ, Mikkelsen KV. Heterogeneous nucleation of polymorphs on polymer surfaces: polymer-molecule interactions using a Coulomb and van der Waals model. J Mol Model 2018; 24:155. [PMID: 29886556 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-018-3664-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2017] [Accepted: 04/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The nucleation processes of acetaminophen on poly(methyl methacrylate) and poly(vinyl acetate) have been investigated and the mechanisms of the processes are studied. This is achieved by a combination of theoretical models and computational investigations within the framework of a modified QM/MM method; a Coulomb-van der Waals model. We have combined quantum mechanical computations and electrostatic models at the atomistic level for investigating the stability of different orientations of acetaminophen on the polymer surfaces. Based on the Coulomb-van der Waals model, we have determined the most stable orientation to be a flat orientation, and the strongest interaction is seen between poly(vinyl acetate) and the molecule in a flat orientation in vacuum.
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- Nanna Wahlberg
- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 2, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Taresco V, Louzao I, Scurr D, Booth J, Treacher K, McCabe J, Turpin E, Laughton CA, Alexander C, Burley JC, Garnett MC. Rapid Nanogram Scale Screening Method of Microarrays to Evaluate Drug-Polymer Blends Using High-Throughput Printing Technology. Mol Pharm 2017; 14:2079-2087. [PMID: 28502181 DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b00182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A miniaturized, high-throughput assay was optimized to screen polymer-drug solid dispersions using a 2-D Inkjet printer. By simply printing nanoliter amounts of polymer and drug solutions onto an inert surface, drug/polymer microdots of tunable composition were produced in an easily addressable microarray format. The amount of material printed for each dried spot ranged from 25 ng to 650 ng. These arrays were used to assess the stability of drug/polymer dispersions with respect to recrystallization, using polarized light microscopy. One array with a panel of 6 drugs formulated at different ratios with a poly(vinylpyrrolidone-vinyl acetate) (PVPVA) copolymer was developed to estimate a possible bulk (gram-scale) approximation threshold from the final printed nanoamount of formulation. Another array was printed at a fixed final amount of material to establish a literature comparison of one drug formulated with different commercial polymers for validation. This new approach may offer significant efficiency in pharmaceutical formulation screening, with each experiment in the nanomicro-array format requiring from 3 up to 6 orders of magnitude lower amounts of sample than conventional screening methods.
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- Vincenzo Taresco
- School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham , University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham , University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham , University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham , University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham , University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham , University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham , University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham , University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K
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Pfund LY, Matzger AJ. Towards exhaustive and automated high-throughput screening for crystalline polymorphs. ACS COMBINATORIAL SCIENCE 2014; 16:309-13. [PMID: 24933573 PMCID: PMC4215906 DOI: 10.1021/co500043q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Methods capable of exhaustively screening for crystal polymorphism remain an elusive goal in solid-state chemistry. Particularly promising among the new generation of approaches is polymer-induced heteronucleation (PIHn), a tool utilizing hundreds of unique polymers for granting kinetic access to polymorphs. Here PIHn is redeployed in a high density format in which 288 distinct polymers, each acting as a heteronucleant, are arrayed on one substrate. This format allows determining the outcome of thousands of crystallizations in an automated fashion with only a few milligrams of sample. This technology enables the study of a broader range of targets, including preclinical candidates, facilitating determination of polymorphism propensity much earlier in the drug development process. Here the efficacy of this approach is demonstrated using four pharmaceutically relevant compounds: acetaminophen, tolfenamic acid, ROY, and curcumin.
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- Laura Y. Pfund
- Department
of Chemistry and the Macromolecular Science
and Engineering Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and the Macromolecular Science
and Engineering Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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McKellar SC, Urquhart AJ, Lamprou DA, Florence AJ. Polymer templating of supercooled indomethacin for polymorph selection. ACS COMBINATORIAL SCIENCE 2012; 14:155-9. [PMID: 22332944 DOI: 10.1021/co200175e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Reported here is a relatively simple technique for polymorph screening of pharmaceutical compounds that are thermally stable. Polymer libraries have previously been used as surfaces to influence, or direct, the crystalline form adopted by an active pharmaceutical ingredient on crystallization from solution. In this current work, we demonstrate the polymorph-directing effect of homopolymer surfaces in the absence of solvent by recrystallization from the supercooled melt. When the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug indomethacin is melted, cooled, and subsequently reheated above its glass transition temperature on an untreated surface, it has a proclivity to crystallize as its δ polymorph. On certain polymer surfaces, however, it preferentially crystallizes as the α polymorph, as a direct result of polymer templating. The method is well-suited to implementation in multiwell plate formats requiring only small amounts of material and enabling multiple experiments to be carried out in parallel with samples readily characterized using X-ray powder diffraction.
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- Scott C. McKellar
- Strathclyde Institute of
Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NR, U.K
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- Strathclyde Institute of
Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NR, U.K
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- Strathclyde Institute of
Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NR, U.K
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- Strathclyde Institute of
Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NR, U.K
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Thorson MR, Goyal S, Gong Y, Zhang GGZ, Kenis PJA. Microfluidic approach to polymorph screening through antisolvent crystallization. CrystEngComm 2012. [DOI: 10.1039/c2ce06167h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Mangin D, Puel F, Veesler S. Polymorphism in Processes of Crystallization in Solution: A Practical Review. Org Process Res Dev 2009. [DOI: 10.1021/op900168f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Denis Mangin
- LAGEP UMR CNRS 5007, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, ESCPE Lyon, 43 bld du 11/Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France, and CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, CINAM-UPR3118, Campus de Luminy, Case 913, F-13288 Marseille Cedex, France
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- LAGEP UMR CNRS 5007, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, ESCPE Lyon, 43 bld du 11/Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France, and CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, CINAM-UPR3118, Campus de Luminy, Case 913, F-13288 Marseille Cedex, France
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- LAGEP UMR CNRS 5007, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, ESCPE Lyon, 43 bld du 11/Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France, and CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, CINAM-UPR3118, Campus de Luminy, Case 913, F-13288 Marseille Cedex, France
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Liberski A, Zhang R, Bradley M. Inkjet fabrication of polymer microarrays and grids—solving the evaporation problem. Chem Commun (Camb) 2009:334-6. [DOI: 10.1039/b816920a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Zhang R, Liberski A, Khan F, Diaz-Mochon JJ, Bradley M. Inkjet fabrication of hydrogel microarrays using in situ nanolitre-scale polymerisation. Chem Commun (Camb) 2008:1317-9. [PMID: 18389119 DOI: 10.1039/b717932d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Polymer hydrogel microarrays were fabricated by inkjet printing of monomers and initiator, allowing up to 1800 individual polymer features to be printed on a single glass slide.
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- Rong Zhang
- EaStCHEM, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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