Dissolution Mechanisms of Amorphous Solid Dispersions: Application of Ternary Phase Diagrams To Explain Release Behavior. 2024

Alexandru Deac, and Christian Luebbert, and Qingqing Qi, and Reagan M Courtney, and Anura S Indulkar, and Yi Gao, and Geoff G Z Zhang, and Gabriele Sadowski, and Lynne S Taylor
Department of Industrial and Molecular Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States.

The use of amorphous solid dispersions (ASDs) in commercial drug products has increased in recent years due to the large number of poorly soluble drugs in the pharmaceutical pipeline. However, the release behavior of ASDs is complex and remains not well understood. Often, the drug release from ASDs is rapid and complete at lower drug loadings (DLs) but becomes slow and incomplete at higher DLs. The DL where release becomes hindered is termed the limit of congruency (LoC). Currently, there are no approaches to predict the LoC. However, recent findings show that one potential cause leading to the LoC is a change in phase morphology after water-induced phase separation at the ASD/solution interface. In this study, the phase behavior of ASDs in contact with aqueous solutions was described thermodynamically by constructing experimental and computational ternary phase diagrams, and these were used to predict morphology changes and ultimately the LoC. Experimental ternary phase diagrams were obtained by equilibrating ASD/water mixtures over time. Computational ternary phase diagrams were obtained by Perturbed Chain Statistical Associating Fluid Theory (PC-SAFT). The morphology of the hydrophobic phase was studied with fluorescence confocal microscopy. It was demonstrated that critical point (plait point) composition approximately corresponded to the ASD DL, where the hydrophobic phase, formed during phase separation, became interconnected and hindered ASD release. This work provides mechanistic insights into the ASD release behavior and highlights the potential of in silico ASD design using phase diagrams.

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