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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
Volume 1097, Issue -, Pages 87-97Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2015.05.014
Keywords
Co-crystal; Apovincamine; Hirshfeld surface; Hydrogen bond; Stability; Solubility
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Funding
- prospective joint research project of Jiangsu province [BY2012193]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [CXZZ12_0119]
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Apovincamine and the corresponding co-crystal have been synthesized and characterized by single crystal XRD, FT-IR, UV, TGA/DSG. Components of the crystalline phase have also been investigated in terms of their corresponding Hirshfeld surface. In the crystal lattice, a three-dimensional hydrogen-bonded network is observed in the co-crystal, including the formation of a two-dimensional molecular scaffold. Hirshfeld surfaces and fingerprint plots indicate that the structures are stabilized by H center dot center dot center dot H, C-H center dot center dot center dot pi, C-H center dot center dot center dot O and O-H center dot center dot center dot N intermolecular interactions. In this work, the co-crystal strategy has been applied successfully to apovincamine. One important parameter, i.e. solubility in water, has also been significantly improved, which proves to be an important factor for bioavailability. Furthermore, DSC/TGA analysis indicates that the co-crystal maintains its crystallinity up to 200 degrees C, suggesting a higher stability of the co-crystal compared to apovincamine. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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