Extended Hildebrand solubility approach applied to sulphadiazine, sulphamerazine and sulphamethazine in some {1-propanol (1) + water (2)} mixtures at 298.15 K

ABSTRACT

Extended Hildebrand solubility approach (EHSA) was applied in this research to analyse the equilibrium solubility of sulphadiazine, sulphamerazine and sulphamethazine in some {1-propanol (1) + water (2)} mixtures at 298.15 K. Reported experimental solubilities and some fusion properties of these drugs were used for EHSA calculations. A good predictive character of EHSA (with mean deviations lower than 4.0%) was found by using regular polynomials in order five when correlating the interaction parameter (W) and the Hildebrand solubility parameter of solvent mixtures free of drug (δ₁₊₂). Nevertheless, the predictive character of EHSA was almost the same as obtained when logarithmic drug solubilities (log x₃) were correlated with δ₁₊₂ by using a fifth-degree regular polynomial.

KEYWORDS:

• Sulphonamides
• 1-propanol
• binary mixtures
• extended Hildebrand solubility approach
• EHSA
• Hildebrand solubility parameter

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