Crystal engineering of pharmaceutical cocrystals in the discovery and development of improved drugs

G Bolla, B Sarma, AK Nangia - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The subject of crystal engineering started in the 1970s with the study of topochemical
reactions in the solid state. A broad chemical definition of crystal engineering was published …

Pharmaceutical cocrystals: New solid phase modification approaches for the formulation of APIs

A Karagianni, M Malamatari, K Kachrimanis - Pharmaceutics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cocrystals can be used as an alternative approach based on crystal engineering to enhance
specific physicochemical and biopharmaceutical properties of active pharmaceutical …

Crystal engineering: from molecule to crystal

GR Desiraju - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2013 - ACS Publications
How do molecules aggregate in solution, and how do these aggregates consolidate
themselves in crystals? What is the relationship between the structure of a molecule and the …

Multidrug co-crystals: towards the development of effective therapeutic hybrids

R Thipparaboina, D Kumar, RB Chavan… - Drug Discovery …, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Multi-drug co-crystals would offer an efficient solution to combat various
diseases.•Cocrystals would play vital role in market due to expanded patent …

An overview of recent studies on the analysis of pharmaceutical polymorphs

N Chieng, T Rades, J Aaltonen - Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical …, 2011 - Elsevier
Pharmaceutical solids are well known to be able to exist in different solid-state forms and
there are a wide variety of solid-state analytical techniques available to characterize …

[HTML][HTML] Drug-drug cocrystals: Opportunities and challenges

X Wang, S Du, R Zhang, X Jia, T Yang… - Asian journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, drug-drug cocrystal attracts more and more attention. It offers a low risk, low-cost
but high reward route to new and better medicines and could improve the physiochemical …

[PDF][PDF] Pharmaceutical Cocrystals: An Overview.

S Kumar, A Nanda - Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical …, 2017 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Poor aqueous solubility and low oral bioavailability of an active pharmaceutical ingredient
are the major constraints during the development of new product. Various approaches have …

Drug-drug and drug-nutraceutical cocrystal/salt as alternative medicine for combination therapy: a crystal engineering approach

R Thakuria, B Sarma - Crystals, 2018 - mdpi.com
The pre-formulation of pharmaceutical cocrystals and salts is a concept of crystal
engineering that has emerged as a promising technique for drug development in …

Fast dissolving curcumin cocrystals

P Sanphui, NR Goud, UBR Khandavilli… - Crystal Growth & …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Curcumin is the principal curcuminoid of the popular Indian spice turmeric. Despite the
diverse pharmacological activities of this bioactive phenol, its application as a drug is …

Cocrystals by design: a rational coformer selection approach for tackling the API problems

M Singh, H Barua, VGSS Jyothi, MR Dhondale… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) with unfavorable physicochemical properties and
stability present a significant challenge during their processing into final dosage forms …