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Pharmaceutical Cocrystals of Ethenzamide: Molecular Structure Analysis Based on Vibrational Spectra and DFT Calculations
Authors:Mei Wan  Jiyuan Fang  Jiadan Xue  Jianjun Liu  Jianyuan Qin  Zhi Hong  Jiusheng Li  Yong Du
Affiliation:1.Centre for THz Research, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, China; (M.W.); (J.F.); (J.L.); (J.Q.); (Z.H.); (J.L.);2.Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China;
Abstract:Pharmaceutical cocrystals can offer another advanced strategy for drug preparation and development and can facilitate improvements to the physicochemical properties of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) without altering their chemical structures and corresponding pharmacological activities. Therefore, cocrystals show a great deal of potential in the development and research of drugs. In this work, pharmaceutical cocrystals of ethenzamide (ETZ) with 2,6-dihydroxybenzoic acid (26DHBA), 2,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid (24DHBA) and gallic acid (GA) were synthesized by the solvent evaporation method. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the structural changes after ETZ cocrystallization, terahertz time domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) and Raman spectroscopy were used to characterize the single starting samples, corresponding physical mixtures and the cocrystals. In addition, the possible molecular structures of ETZ-GA, ETZ-26DHBA and ETZ-24DHBA cocrystals were optimized by density functional theory (DFT). The results of THz and Raman spectra with the DFT simulations for the three cocrystals revealed that the ETZ-GA cocrystal formed an O−H∙∙∙O hydrogen bond between the -OH of GA and oxygen of the amide group of the ETZ molecule, and it was also found that ETZ formed a dimer through a supramolecular amide–amide homosynthon; meanwhile, the ETZ-26DHBA cocrystal was formed by a powerful supramolecular acid–amide heterosynthon, and the ETZ-24DHBA cocrystal formed the O−H∙∙∙O hydrogen bond between the 4-hydroxy group of 24DHBA and oxygen of the amide group of the ETZ molecule. It could be seen that in the molecular structure analysis of the three cocrystals, the position and number of hydroxyl groups in the coformers play an essential role in guiding the formation of specific supramolecular synthons.
Keywords:ethenzamide   hydroxybenzoic acids   pharmaceutical cocrystal   terahertz time domain spectroscopy   Raman spectroscopy   density functional theory
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