New Multicomponent Solid Forms of the Antitumor Drug Ripretinib: The Role of Conformations in Dictating Dissolution and Photostability Muthukumari Muthaiyan, Fayaz T. K. S, Gowtham Kenguva, Aditya Kumar Prajapati, Rambabu Dandela, Vladimir V. Chernyshev, Palash Sanphui Crystal Growth and Design, 2024 Ripretinib (RIP), a medication to treat gastrointestinal stromal tumors, possesses very poor aqueous solubility and bioavailability and is prone to degrade under sunlight. In order to overcome the bottlenecks of the drug, salt screening was performed that resulted in hydrochloride, acetate, 2,6-dihydroxybenzoate, and ferulate salts, along with a solvate with formic acid and an unexpected methanol solvate. The new multicomponent solids were characterized by PXRD, DSC, TGA, FT-IR, and SC-XRD. In all these RIP multicomponent solids, the N–H···O hydrogen-bonded centrosymmetric dimer involving urea NH groups and the carbonyl group of the naphthyridine ring is consistent as the reported polymorphs and solvates. In RIP salts, a proton is transferred from the acid to the N-methyl pyridine fraction of the RIP. Even though formic acid is a stronger acid than acetic acid, RIP-formic acid (1:2) is crystallized as a cocrystal (solvate), whereas the RIP acetate acetic acid salt hydrate (1:1:2:1) is crystallized as a mixed ionized state. RIP-2,6-dihydroxybenzoate is crystallized as a solvate (or hydrate), whereas RIP-ferulate forms an anhydrous phase. Solubility experiments in 75% EtOH-water medium indicated that the HCl salt improved up to 4-fold solubility, whereas the RIP-2,6-dihydroxybenzoate and ferulate salts exhibited comparable solubility as the native drug. Similarly, RIP-HCl salt offered 1.5-fold improved chemical stability during photolysis compared to the native drug. The improved solubility and chemical stability of the RIP multicomponent solids are partially correlated to the extended conformation of the native drug and their melting points.
Polymorph Screening of the Antitumor Drug Ripretinib─Selective Preference of Dimer Synthons T. K. S. Fayaz, Parag Roy, Animesh Ghosh, Shubham Som, Deepak Chopra, Palash Sanphui Crystal Growth and Design, 2023 Ripretinib is commercialized as a medication to treat patients suffering from advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor. The USFDA-approved drug (2020) is highly water-insoluble and belongs to the biopharmaceutics classification system (BCS) class II category. Solid form screening was performed to initiate its structural landscape and establish thermodynamic relationship between the crystalline forms. This resulted in two anhydrous polymorphs (Forms 1 and 2), one hydrate, and a series of solvates with acetone, ethanol, isoamyl alcohol–water, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF), and tetrahydrofuran (THF)–water that were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), vibrational spectroscopy (FT-IR), thermal analysis (DSC/TGA), and finally single-crystal XRD. Both Form 1 (Z′ = 2) and Form 2 (Z′ = 1) constitute an N–H···O (mono/bifurcated) hydrogen-bonded centrosymmetric dimer. They are designated as packing polymorphs. Note that there is also a minor conformational difference observed in the N-methyl fraction of the polymorphs. Interestingly, all the crystalline solid forms of the drug maintain a robust N–H···O H-bonded dimer in the polymorphs as well as solvates that was supported by a similar CO vibration. Comparatively, the acetone, ethanol, isoamyl alcohol–water, and THF–water solvates transformed to Form 1 following desolvation. Form 1 is supposed to be the thermodynamically most stable form based on its higher crystal density, melting point/enthalpy of fusion, and lower solubility compared to Form 2. Among the Forms 1 and 2 and hydrate, the hydrate was more soluble in pure ethanol than the anhydrous forms and their solubility order is hydrate > Form 2 > Form 1.
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