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. 2022 Aug 24;23(7):237.
doi: 10.1208/s12249-022-02395-6.

Determination of BET Specific Surface Area of Hydrate-Anhydrate Systems Susceptible to Phase Transformation Using Inverse Gas Chromatography

Minhthi Bui  1 , Karthik Nagapudi  1 , Paroma Chakravarty  2
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Determination of BET Specific Surface Area of Hydrate-Anhydrate Systems Susceptible to Phase Transformation Using Inverse Gas Chromatography

Minhthi Bui et al. AAPS PharmSciTech. .

Abstract

Specific surface area (SSA) is an important parameter in drug development that affects other downstream pharmaceutical properties of interest such as reactivity, stability, dissolution, and ultimately bioavailability. Traditionally, the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) SSA of pharmaceutical powders is measured via gas adsorption (nitrogen or krypton) that is preceded by a prolonged degassing step under low pressure. This degassing step may not be suitable for certain pharmaceutical hydrates that are susceptible to dehydration and phase transformation under reduced pressure and humidity conditions. Therefore, inverse gas chromatography (IGC) was explored as a reliable alternate technique for determining the SSA of model anhydrate-hydrate systems (trehalose and thiamine hydrochloride) that are prone to such phase transformation during SSA measurement. Both trehalose dihydrate and thiamine HCl non-stoichiometric hydrate were found to undergo partial phase transformation to anhydrous forms during BET analysis via degassing and gas adsorption. In contrast, these hydrates remained stable during surface area analysis using IGC owing to measurements under controlled relative humidity. Thus, IGC proved to be a viable technique for SSA measurement of pharmaceutical hydrates without compromising their physical stability.

Keywords: gas adsorption; hydrates; inverse gas chromatography; phase transformation; surface area.

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