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Thermodynamic analysis of the solubility of ketoprofen in some propylene glycol + water cosolvent mixtures

Gantiva, M.[Mauricio], Martinez, F.[Fleming]
Fluid Phase Equilib. 2010, 293, 2, 242-250
ABSTRACT
By using the van t Hoff and Gibbs equations the thermodynamic functions Gibbs energy, enthalpy, and entropy of solution, mixing, and solvation for ketoprofen in propylene glycol + water (PG + W) cosolvent mixtures, were evaluated from solubility data determined at several temperatures. The solubility was greater in pure PG and lower in W at all temperatures studied. By means of enthalpy entropy compensation analysis, non-linear delHsoln vs. delGsoln plot with negative slope from pure water up to 0.50 in mass fraction of PG and positive beyond this PG proportion was obtained. Accordingly to this result, it follows that the driving mechanism for solubility of KTP in water-rich mixtures is the entropy, probably due to water-structure loosing around the drug non-polar moieties by PG, whereas, over 0.50 in mass fraction of PG the driving mechanism is the enthalpy probably due to KTP solvation increase by cosolvent molecules. On the other hand the Jouyban-Acree model was challenged in front to experimental KTP solubility values finding a predictive power within 30 % of deviation.
Compounds
# Formula Name
1 C16H14O3 ketoprofen
2 C3H8O2 1,2-propanediol
3 H2O water
4 C6H12 cyclohexane
Datasets
The table above is generated from the ThermoML associated json file (link above). POMD and RXND refer to PureOrMixture and Reaction Datasets. The compound numbers are included in properties, variables, and phases, if specificied; the numbers refer to the table of compounds on the left.
Type Compound-# Property Variable Constraint Phase Method #Points
  • POMD
  • 4
  • 1
  • Mole fraction - 1 ; Liquid
  • Temperature, K; Liquid
  • Pressure, kPa; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Crystal - 1
  • UV Spectrophotometry
  • 5
  • POMD
  • 2
  • 3
  • 1
  • Mole fraction - 1 ; Liquid
  • Temperature, K; Liquid
  • Solvent: Mass fraction - 2; Liquid
  • Pressure, kPa; Liquid
  • Liquid
  • Crystal - 1
  • UV Spectrophotometry
  • 55