In silico solid state perturbation for solubility improvement
2014 (English)In: ChemMedChem, ISSN 1860-7179, E-ISSN 1860-7187, Vol. 9, no 4, p. 724-726Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Solubility is a frequently recurring issue within pharmaceutical industry, and new methods to proactively resolve this are of fundamental importance. Here, a novel methodology is reported for intrinsic solubility improvement, using in silico prediction of crystal structures, by perturbing key interactions in the crystalline solid state. The methodology was evaluated with a set of benzodiazepine molecules, using the two‐dimensional molecular structure as the only a priori input. The overall trend in intrinsic solubility was correctly predicted for the entire set of benzodiazepines molecules. The results also indicate that, in drug compound series where the melting point is relatively high (i.e., “brick dust” compounds), the reported methodology should be very suitable for identifying strategically important molecular substitutions to improve solubility. As such, this approach could be a useful predictive tool for rational compound design in the early stages of drug development.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2014. Vol. 9, no 4, p. 724-726
Keywords [en]
crystal engineering, drug design, molecular modeling, solid state structures, solubility
National Category
Natural Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-6847DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.201300454PubMedID: 24504569Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84897989809Local ID: 23773OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-6847DiVA, id: diva2:964688
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