PRESENTED BY: 
K.SAI VANI 
256213886014 
M.PHARM (PHARMACEUTICS) 
GUIDED BY: 
Mrs. Yasmin Begum 
M.pharm
DEFINITION: 
 The term ‘solubility’ is defined as maximum amount of 
solute that can be dissolved in a given amount solvent. 
 Solute is the substance being 
dissolved – powder 
 Solvent is the dissolving agent – 
water
 Solubility can also be defined 
quantitatively as well as 
qualitatively. 
 Quantitatively it is defined as the 
concentration of the solute 
in a saturated solution at a certain 
temparature. 
 Qualitatively it may be defined as the 
spontaneous 
interaction of two or more substances 
to form a homogenous molecular 
dispersion. 
 A saturated solution is one in which 
the solute is in equilibrium with 
solvent. 
 The solubility of drug is represented 
through various concentration 
expression such as 
parts,percentage,molarity,molality,vo 
lume fraction,mole fraction
 Solubility is one of the important parameters to achieve desired 
concentration of drug in systemic circulation for achieving required 
pharmacological response. 
 These poorly water soluble drugs having slow drug absorption leads to 
inadequate and variable bioavailability and gastrointestinal mucosal 
toxicity. 
 Most of the drugs(>40%) belongs to BCS class II (low solubility and 
high permeability). 
 As for BCS class II drugs rate limiting step is drug release from the 
dosage form and solubility in the gastric fluid, so increasing the solubility 
in turn increases the bioavailability for BCS class II drugs.
Saivani ppt
Solubility improvement techniques can be categorized 
into physical modification, chemical modifications of the 
drug substance, and other techniques. 
 Physical Modifications —Particle size reduction like 
micronization and nano-suspension, modification of the 
crystal habit like polymorphs, amorphous form and co-crystallization, 
drug dispersion in carriers like eutectic 
mixtures, solid dispersions and solid solutions. 
 Chemical Modifications —Change of pH, use of buffer, 
derivatization, complexation, and salt formation. 
 Miscellaneous Methods —Supercritical fluid process, use 
of adjuvant like surfactant, solubilizers, 
cosolvency,hydrotropy etc.
Step 1 Step2 Step 3 
Holes open in the 
solvent 
Molecules of the solid 
breaks away from 
the bulk 
The freed solid 
molecule is integrated 
into the hole in the 
solvent
MICELLAR 
SOLUBILIZATION:
Micellar solubilizatiion: 
 Surfactants can lower surface tension & improve the 
dissolution of lipophilic drugs in the aqueous medium. 
 When the concentration of surfactants exceeds their 
critical micelle concentration (CMC, which is in a 
range of 0.05-0.10% for most surfactants), micelle 
formation occurs,entrapping the drugs within the 
micelles. 
 This process is known as micellisation and generally 
results in enhanced solubility of poorly soluble drugs.
 Micellar solubilization is a powerful alternative for 
dissolving hydrophobic drugs in aqueous 
environments. 
 Surfactants are known to play a vital role in many 
processes of interest in both fundamental and applied 
science. 
 One important property of surfactants is the formation 
of colloidal-sized clusters in solutions, known as 
micelles, which have particular significance in 
pharmacy because of their ability to increase the 
solubility of sparingly soluble substances in water
 Micelles are known to have an anisotropic water 
distribution within their structure 
 Micellar systems can solubilize poorly soluble drugs and 
thus increase their bioavailability
 Surfactants are amphiphilic molecules composed of a 
hydrophilic or polar moiety known as head and a hydrophobic 
or nonpolar moiety known as tail. 
 The surfactant head can be charged (anionic or cationic), 
dipolar (zwitterionic), or non-charged (nonionic). 
Ex: SDS, DTAB, Ethylene oxide, dioctanoyl phosphatidyl 
choline etc. 
 The surfactant tail is usually a long chain hydrocarbon residue 
and less often a halogenated or oxygenated hydrocarbon or 
siloxane chain.
 A surfactant, when present at low concentrations in a system, 
adsorbs onto surfaces or interfaces significantly changing the 
surface or interfacial free energy 
 Surfactants usually act to reduce the interfacial free energy, 
although there are occasions when they are used to increase it. 
 When surfactant molecules are dissolved in water at 
concentrations above the critical micelle concentration (cmc), 
they form aggregates known as micelles.
 In a micelle, the hydrophobic tails flock to the interior in order 
to minimize their contact with water, and the hydrophilic heads 
remain on the outer surface in order to maximize their contact 
with water.
 The micellization process in water 
results from a delicate balance of 
intermolecular forces, including 
hydrophobic, steric, electrostatic, 
hydrogen bonding, and van der 
Waals interactions. 
 The determination of a surfactant 
cmc can be made by use of several 
physical properties, such as surface 
tension(γ), conductivity (κ) – in case 
of ionic surfactants, osmotic pressure 
(π), detergency, etc. 
 When these properties are plotted as 
a function of surfactant concentration 
(or its logarithm, in case of surface 
tension), a sharp break can be 
observed in the curves obtained 
evidencing the formation of micelles 
at that point
 Another important parameter that characterizes micelles is the 
aggregation number, Nag, that corresponds to the average 
number of surfactant monomers in each micelle of a micellar 
solution. 
 Micelles are labile entities formed by the noncovalent 
aggregation of individual surfactant monomers. Therefore, they 
can be spherical, cylindrical, or planar (discs or bilayers). 
 Micelle shape and size can be controlled by changing the 
surfactant chemical structure as well as by varying solution 
conditions such as temperature, overall surfactant 
concentration, surfactant composition (in the case of mixed 
surfactant systems), ionic strength and pH
 An important property of 
micelles that has particular 
significance in pharmacy is 
their ability to increase the 
solubility of sparingly soluble 
substances in water. 
 Solubilization can be defined as 
the spontaneous dissolving of a 
substance by reversible 
interaction with the micelles of 
a surfactant in water to form a 
thermodynamically stable 
isotropic solution with reduced 
thermodynamic activity of the 
solubilized material.
 From the thermodynamic point of view, the solubilization can 
be considered as a normal partitioning of the drug between two 
phases, micelle and aqueous, and the standard free energy of 
solubilization (ΔGS º) can be represented by the following 
expression 
ΔGS º= -RTlnP 
 where R is the universal constant of the gases, T is the 
absolute temperature, and P is the partition coefficient between 
the micelle and the aqueous phase. 
 Usually, the solubilization of a molecule by a surfactant can be 
evaluated based on two descriptors that are the molar 
solubilization capacity, χ, and the micelle water partition 
coefficient, P
 The χ value is defined as the number of moles of the solute 
(drug) that can be solubilized by one mol of micellar surfactant, 
and characterizes the ability of the surfactant to solubilize the 
drug. 
 Where Stot is the total drug solubility, SW is the water drug 
solubility, Csurf is the molar concentration of surfactant in 
solution, and cmc is the critical micelle concentration. 
 The micelle-water partition coefficient is the ratio of drug 
concentration in the micelle to the drug concentration in water 
for a particular surfactant concentration, as follows:
 Combining Equations we can relate the two solubility 
descriptors. Accordingly, for a given surfactant concentration 
 As can be seen, P is related to the water solubility of the 
compound, in contrary to χ . In order to eliminate the 
dependence of P on the surfactant concentration, a molar 
micelle-water partition coefficient (PM), corresponding to the 
partition coefficient when Csurf = 1 M, can be defined as 
follows 
 The lower is the cmc value of a given surfactant, the more 
stable are the micelles.
 Hydrophilic drugs can be adsorbed on the surface of 
the micelle. 
 Drugs with intermediate Solubility should be located 
in intermediate positions within the micelle such as 
between the hydrophilic head group of Peo Micelles 
 In the Palisade Layer between the hydrophilic group 
and the first few carbon atoms of the hydrophobic 
group , that is the outer core. 
 Completely insoluble hydrophobic drugs may be 
located in the Inner Core of the micelle.
 Examples of poorly soluble compounds that 
use micellar solubilization are 
 Anti-diabetic drugs, 
 Gliclazide, 
 Glipizide, 
 Gluburide, 
 Glimepride, 
 Repaglinide, 
 Pioglitazone,and 
 Rosiglitazone.
Saivani ppt
INTRODUCTION: 
 The term Hydrotropic agent was first introduced by Neuberg(1916) 
to designate anionic organic salts. 
 Hydrotropy is defined as a solubilisation process where by addition 
of a large amount of second solute results in an increase in the 
aqueous solubility of another solute and the chemicals which are 
used in hydrotropy are called hydrotropes. 
Ex: sodium benzoate, urea, sodium salicylate, ibuprofen sodium etc. 
 The chemical structure of the conventional Neuberg’s hydrotropic 
salts consists of two essential parts, an anionic group and a 
hydrotropic aromatic ring or ring system.
 Hydrotropic agents are ionic organic salts. 
 Additives or salts that increase solubility in given solvent are 
said to “salt in” the solute & those salts that decrease solubility 
“salt out ” the solute. 
 Several salts with large anions or cations that are themselves 
very soluble in water result in “salting in” of non electrolytes 
called “hydrotropic salts” a phenomenon known as 
“hydrotropism”. 
 Hydrotropic solutions do not show colloidal properties and 
involve a weak interaction between the hydrotropic agent and 
solute.
 A hydrotrope is a compound that solubilises 
hydrophobic compounds in aqueous solutions. 
 Typically, hydrotropes consist of a hydrophilic part and 
a hydrophobic part, but hydrophobic part is too small 
to cause self aggregation. 
 Hydrotropes do not have a critical concentration above 
which self aggregation 'suddenly' starts to occur. 
Ex: Paracetamol with urea as hydrotropic agent.
 The more is the concentration of hydrotrope, more is the aqueous solubility 
of poorly water-soluble drugs. Distilled water was used in making 
hydrotropic solutions. 
 To select suitable hydrotropes for various poorly water soluble drugs 
following method is used.(approx solubility can be determined) 
25ml of H2O/Hydrotropic soln 50ml beaker Gross weight was 
noted.(1) 
Gross weight is same operation is Add drug and shake 
noted (2) continued till excess 
drug remain undissolved. 
 From the difference in two readings, solubility was determined.
Hydrotropic solubilisation study of various 
poorly water soluble drugs: 
DRUG HYDROTROPIC AGENT 
Cefprozil Potassium acetate, Potassium 
citrate, Sodium acetate, Sodium 
citrate, Urea 
Hydrochlorothiazide Sodium acetate, urea 
Paracetamol, Diclofenac 
urea 
sodium 
Theophylline Sodium salicylate 
Salicylic acid Ibuprofen sodium, sodium 
salicylate 
Furesamide Ibuprofen sodium 
Chlorpropamide, 
Ibuprofen sodium 
Gatifloxacin 
Nifedipine Sodium salicylate 
ketoprofen Urea, sodium salicylate.
 The determination of interference of hydrotropic agents in 
the spectrophotometric estimation of the standard 
solutions of drugs were determined in distilled water alone 
and in the presence of the maximum concentration of the 
hydrotropic agent employed for spectrophotometric 
analysis. 
 The absorbances were recorded against respective reagent 
blanks at appropriate wavelengths 
 Enhancement ratios can be determined by the formula 
Enhancement ratio = solubility in hydrotropic solution/ 
solubility in distilled water.
 Hydrotropy is suggested to be superior to other 
solubilization method, such as miscibility, micellar 
solubilization, co solvency and salting in, because the 
solvent character is independent of pH, has high 
selectivity and does not require emulsification 
 It only requires mixing the drug with the hydrotrope in 
water. 
 It does not require chemical modification of 
hydrophobic drugs, use of organic solvents, or 
preparation of emulsion system
 Mixed hydrotropic solubilization technique is the 
phenomenon to increase the solubility of poorly water-soluble 
drugs in the blends of hydrotropic agents which 
may give miraculous synergistic enhancement effect on 
solubility of poorly water soluble drugs. 
 Utilization of it in the formulation of dosage forms of 
water insoluble drugs and to reduce concentration of 
individual hydrotropic agent to minimize the side 
effects.
 It may reduce the large total concentration of hydrotropic 
agents necessary to produce modest increase in solubility by 
employing combination of agents in lower concentration. 
 It is new, simple, cost-effective, safe, accurate, precise and 
environmental friendly method for the analysis (titrimetric 
and spectrophotometric) of poorly water-soluble drugs 
titrimetric and spectrophotometric precluding the use of 
organic solvents. 
 It precludes the use of organic solvents and thus avoids the 
problem of residual toxicity, error due to volatility, 
pollution, cost etc
 Quantitative estimations of poorly watersoluble drugs 
by UV-Visible spectrophotometric analysis precluding 
the use of organic solvents. 
 Quantitative estimations of poorly watersoluble drugs 
by titrimetric analysis.such as ibuprofen, flurbiprofen 
and naproxen using sodium benzoate[29] . 
 Preparation of hydrotropic solid dispersions of poorly 
water-soluble drugs precluding the use of organic 
solvents. Such as felodipine[30] using poly ethylene 
glycol 6000 and poly-vinyl alcohol.
 Preparation of injection of poorly water soluble drugs. 
 The use of hydrotropic solubilizers as permeation enhancers. 
 The use of hydrotropy to give fast release of poorly water-soluble 
drugs from the suppositories. 
 Application of mixed- hydrotropy to develop injection dosage 
forms of poorly water-soluble drugs. 
 Application of hydrotropic solubilization in nanotechnology 
(by controlled precipitation). 
 Application of hydrotropic solubilization in extraction of active 
constituents from crude drugs (in pharmacognosy field). 
 Hydrotropic solutions can also be tried to develop the 
dissolution fluids to carry out the dissolution studies of dosage 
forms of poorly water soluble drugs.
 Solubility of the drug is the most important 
factor that controls the formulation of the drug 
as well as. Therapeutic efficacy of the drug, 
hence the most critical factor in the formulation 
development. 
 The various techniques described above alone or 
in combination can be used to enhance the 
solubility of the drug 
 Because of solubility problem of many drugs the 
bioavailability of them gets affected and hence 
solubility enhancement becomes necessary.
 International journal of pharmaceutical 
sciences review and research,vol5,issue1, 
varun raj vemula, article007 nov-dec2010. 
 J pharm pharmaceutical sciences,CarlotaO. 
July2005. 
 Journal of drug delivery & therapeutics 
2012,Md.Ali sajid. 
 International journal of drug development 
research, vol3, issue2, apr-jun2011 
 International journal of pharmaceutical 
research & bio-science.
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Saivani ppt

  • 1. PRESENTED BY: K.SAI VANI 256213886014 M.PHARM (PHARMACEUTICS) GUIDED BY: Mrs. Yasmin Begum M.pharm
  • 2. DEFINITION:  The term ‘solubility’ is defined as maximum amount of solute that can be dissolved in a given amount solvent.  Solute is the substance being dissolved – powder  Solvent is the dissolving agent – water
  • 3.  Solubility can also be defined quantitatively as well as qualitatively.  Quantitatively it is defined as the concentration of the solute in a saturated solution at a certain temparature.  Qualitatively it may be defined as the spontaneous interaction of two or more substances to form a homogenous molecular dispersion.  A saturated solution is one in which the solute is in equilibrium with solvent.  The solubility of drug is represented through various concentration expression such as parts,percentage,molarity,molality,vo lume fraction,mole fraction
  • 4.  Solubility is one of the important parameters to achieve desired concentration of drug in systemic circulation for achieving required pharmacological response.  These poorly water soluble drugs having slow drug absorption leads to inadequate and variable bioavailability and gastrointestinal mucosal toxicity.  Most of the drugs(>40%) belongs to BCS class II (low solubility and high permeability).  As for BCS class II drugs rate limiting step is drug release from the dosage form and solubility in the gastric fluid, so increasing the solubility in turn increases the bioavailability for BCS class II drugs.
  • 6. Solubility improvement techniques can be categorized into physical modification, chemical modifications of the drug substance, and other techniques.  Physical Modifications —Particle size reduction like micronization and nano-suspension, modification of the crystal habit like polymorphs, amorphous form and co-crystallization, drug dispersion in carriers like eutectic mixtures, solid dispersions and solid solutions.  Chemical Modifications —Change of pH, use of buffer, derivatization, complexation, and salt formation.  Miscellaneous Methods —Supercritical fluid process, use of adjuvant like surfactant, solubilizers, cosolvency,hydrotropy etc.
  • 7. Step 1 Step2 Step 3 Holes open in the solvent Molecules of the solid breaks away from the bulk The freed solid molecule is integrated into the hole in the solvent
  • 9. Micellar solubilizatiion:  Surfactants can lower surface tension & improve the dissolution of lipophilic drugs in the aqueous medium.  When the concentration of surfactants exceeds their critical micelle concentration (CMC, which is in a range of 0.05-0.10% for most surfactants), micelle formation occurs,entrapping the drugs within the micelles.  This process is known as micellisation and generally results in enhanced solubility of poorly soluble drugs.
  • 10.  Micellar solubilization is a powerful alternative for dissolving hydrophobic drugs in aqueous environments.  Surfactants are known to play a vital role in many processes of interest in both fundamental and applied science.  One important property of surfactants is the formation of colloidal-sized clusters in solutions, known as micelles, which have particular significance in pharmacy because of their ability to increase the solubility of sparingly soluble substances in water
  • 11.  Micelles are known to have an anisotropic water distribution within their structure  Micellar systems can solubilize poorly soluble drugs and thus increase their bioavailability
  • 12.  Surfactants are amphiphilic molecules composed of a hydrophilic or polar moiety known as head and a hydrophobic or nonpolar moiety known as tail.  The surfactant head can be charged (anionic or cationic), dipolar (zwitterionic), or non-charged (nonionic). Ex: SDS, DTAB, Ethylene oxide, dioctanoyl phosphatidyl choline etc.  The surfactant tail is usually a long chain hydrocarbon residue and less often a halogenated or oxygenated hydrocarbon or siloxane chain.
  • 13.  A surfactant, when present at low concentrations in a system, adsorbs onto surfaces or interfaces significantly changing the surface or interfacial free energy  Surfactants usually act to reduce the interfacial free energy, although there are occasions when they are used to increase it.  When surfactant molecules are dissolved in water at concentrations above the critical micelle concentration (cmc), they form aggregates known as micelles.
  • 14.  In a micelle, the hydrophobic tails flock to the interior in order to minimize their contact with water, and the hydrophilic heads remain on the outer surface in order to maximize their contact with water.
  • 15.  The micellization process in water results from a delicate balance of intermolecular forces, including hydrophobic, steric, electrostatic, hydrogen bonding, and van der Waals interactions.  The determination of a surfactant cmc can be made by use of several physical properties, such as surface tension(γ), conductivity (κ) – in case of ionic surfactants, osmotic pressure (π), detergency, etc.  When these properties are plotted as a function of surfactant concentration (or its logarithm, in case of surface tension), a sharp break can be observed in the curves obtained evidencing the formation of micelles at that point
  • 16.  Another important parameter that characterizes micelles is the aggregation number, Nag, that corresponds to the average number of surfactant monomers in each micelle of a micellar solution.  Micelles are labile entities formed by the noncovalent aggregation of individual surfactant monomers. Therefore, they can be spherical, cylindrical, or planar (discs or bilayers).  Micelle shape and size can be controlled by changing the surfactant chemical structure as well as by varying solution conditions such as temperature, overall surfactant concentration, surfactant composition (in the case of mixed surfactant systems), ionic strength and pH
  • 17.  An important property of micelles that has particular significance in pharmacy is their ability to increase the solubility of sparingly soluble substances in water.  Solubilization can be defined as the spontaneous dissolving of a substance by reversible interaction with the micelles of a surfactant in water to form a thermodynamically stable isotropic solution with reduced thermodynamic activity of the solubilized material.
  • 18.  From the thermodynamic point of view, the solubilization can be considered as a normal partitioning of the drug between two phases, micelle and aqueous, and the standard free energy of solubilization (ΔGS º) can be represented by the following expression ΔGS º= -RTlnP  where R is the universal constant of the gases, T is the absolute temperature, and P is the partition coefficient between the micelle and the aqueous phase.  Usually, the solubilization of a molecule by a surfactant can be evaluated based on two descriptors that are the molar solubilization capacity, χ, and the micelle water partition coefficient, P
  • 19.  The χ value is defined as the number of moles of the solute (drug) that can be solubilized by one mol of micellar surfactant, and characterizes the ability of the surfactant to solubilize the drug.  Where Stot is the total drug solubility, SW is the water drug solubility, Csurf is the molar concentration of surfactant in solution, and cmc is the critical micelle concentration.  The micelle-water partition coefficient is the ratio of drug concentration in the micelle to the drug concentration in water for a particular surfactant concentration, as follows:
  • 20.  Combining Equations we can relate the two solubility descriptors. Accordingly, for a given surfactant concentration  As can be seen, P is related to the water solubility of the compound, in contrary to χ . In order to eliminate the dependence of P on the surfactant concentration, a molar micelle-water partition coefficient (PM), corresponding to the partition coefficient when Csurf = 1 M, can be defined as follows  The lower is the cmc value of a given surfactant, the more stable are the micelles.
  • 21.  Hydrophilic drugs can be adsorbed on the surface of the micelle.  Drugs with intermediate Solubility should be located in intermediate positions within the micelle such as between the hydrophilic head group of Peo Micelles  In the Palisade Layer between the hydrophilic group and the first few carbon atoms of the hydrophobic group , that is the outer core.  Completely insoluble hydrophobic drugs may be located in the Inner Core of the micelle.
  • 22.  Examples of poorly soluble compounds that use micellar solubilization are  Anti-diabetic drugs,  Gliclazide,  Glipizide,  Gluburide,  Glimepride,  Repaglinide,  Pioglitazone,and  Rosiglitazone.
  • 24. INTRODUCTION:  The term Hydrotropic agent was first introduced by Neuberg(1916) to designate anionic organic salts.  Hydrotropy is defined as a solubilisation process where by addition of a large amount of second solute results in an increase in the aqueous solubility of another solute and the chemicals which are used in hydrotropy are called hydrotropes. Ex: sodium benzoate, urea, sodium salicylate, ibuprofen sodium etc.  The chemical structure of the conventional Neuberg’s hydrotropic salts consists of two essential parts, an anionic group and a hydrotropic aromatic ring or ring system.
  • 25.  Hydrotropic agents are ionic organic salts.  Additives or salts that increase solubility in given solvent are said to “salt in” the solute & those salts that decrease solubility “salt out ” the solute.  Several salts with large anions or cations that are themselves very soluble in water result in “salting in” of non electrolytes called “hydrotropic salts” a phenomenon known as “hydrotropism”.  Hydrotropic solutions do not show colloidal properties and involve a weak interaction between the hydrotropic agent and solute.
  • 26.  A hydrotrope is a compound that solubilises hydrophobic compounds in aqueous solutions.  Typically, hydrotropes consist of a hydrophilic part and a hydrophobic part, but hydrophobic part is too small to cause self aggregation.  Hydrotropes do not have a critical concentration above which self aggregation 'suddenly' starts to occur. Ex: Paracetamol with urea as hydrotropic agent.
  • 27.  The more is the concentration of hydrotrope, more is the aqueous solubility of poorly water-soluble drugs. Distilled water was used in making hydrotropic solutions.  To select suitable hydrotropes for various poorly water soluble drugs following method is used.(approx solubility can be determined) 25ml of H2O/Hydrotropic soln 50ml beaker Gross weight was noted.(1) Gross weight is same operation is Add drug and shake noted (2) continued till excess drug remain undissolved.  From the difference in two readings, solubility was determined.
  • 28. Hydrotropic solubilisation study of various poorly water soluble drugs: DRUG HYDROTROPIC AGENT Cefprozil Potassium acetate, Potassium citrate, Sodium acetate, Sodium citrate, Urea Hydrochlorothiazide Sodium acetate, urea Paracetamol, Diclofenac urea sodium Theophylline Sodium salicylate Salicylic acid Ibuprofen sodium, sodium salicylate Furesamide Ibuprofen sodium Chlorpropamide, Ibuprofen sodium Gatifloxacin Nifedipine Sodium salicylate ketoprofen Urea, sodium salicylate.
  • 29.  The determination of interference of hydrotropic agents in the spectrophotometric estimation of the standard solutions of drugs were determined in distilled water alone and in the presence of the maximum concentration of the hydrotropic agent employed for spectrophotometric analysis.  The absorbances were recorded against respective reagent blanks at appropriate wavelengths  Enhancement ratios can be determined by the formula Enhancement ratio = solubility in hydrotropic solution/ solubility in distilled water.
  • 30.  Hydrotropy is suggested to be superior to other solubilization method, such as miscibility, micellar solubilization, co solvency and salting in, because the solvent character is independent of pH, has high selectivity and does not require emulsification  It only requires mixing the drug with the hydrotrope in water.  It does not require chemical modification of hydrophobic drugs, use of organic solvents, or preparation of emulsion system
  • 31.  Mixed hydrotropic solubilization technique is the phenomenon to increase the solubility of poorly water-soluble drugs in the blends of hydrotropic agents which may give miraculous synergistic enhancement effect on solubility of poorly water soluble drugs.  Utilization of it in the formulation of dosage forms of water insoluble drugs and to reduce concentration of individual hydrotropic agent to minimize the side effects.
  • 32.  It may reduce the large total concentration of hydrotropic agents necessary to produce modest increase in solubility by employing combination of agents in lower concentration.  It is new, simple, cost-effective, safe, accurate, precise and environmental friendly method for the analysis (titrimetric and spectrophotometric) of poorly water-soluble drugs titrimetric and spectrophotometric precluding the use of organic solvents.  It precludes the use of organic solvents and thus avoids the problem of residual toxicity, error due to volatility, pollution, cost etc
  • 33.  Quantitative estimations of poorly watersoluble drugs by UV-Visible spectrophotometric analysis precluding the use of organic solvents.  Quantitative estimations of poorly watersoluble drugs by titrimetric analysis.such as ibuprofen, flurbiprofen and naproxen using sodium benzoate[29] .  Preparation of hydrotropic solid dispersions of poorly water-soluble drugs precluding the use of organic solvents. Such as felodipine[30] using poly ethylene glycol 6000 and poly-vinyl alcohol.
  • 34.  Preparation of injection of poorly water soluble drugs.  The use of hydrotropic solubilizers as permeation enhancers.  The use of hydrotropy to give fast release of poorly water-soluble drugs from the suppositories.  Application of mixed- hydrotropy to develop injection dosage forms of poorly water-soluble drugs.  Application of hydrotropic solubilization in nanotechnology (by controlled precipitation).  Application of hydrotropic solubilization in extraction of active constituents from crude drugs (in pharmacognosy field).  Hydrotropic solutions can also be tried to develop the dissolution fluids to carry out the dissolution studies of dosage forms of poorly water soluble drugs.
  • 35.  Solubility of the drug is the most important factor that controls the formulation of the drug as well as. Therapeutic efficacy of the drug, hence the most critical factor in the formulation development.  The various techniques described above alone or in combination can be used to enhance the solubility of the drug  Because of solubility problem of many drugs the bioavailability of them gets affected and hence solubility enhancement becomes necessary.
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