Glass fragility and the stability of pharmaceutical preparations--excipient selection

Pharmaceutical Development and Technology
R H Hatley

Abstract

The objectives of this study were, first, to calculate the zero mobility temperatures, T0, of trehalose and sucrose by the Pikal method from the width of the glass transition and compare these to the literature, obtained by enthalpy relaxation measurement, and second, to compare the T0 values and physicochemical properties of trehalose to those of sucrose in terms of potential to stabilize labile actives in the glassy state. Differential scanning calorimetry and coulometric Karl-Fischer analysis were used. The glass transition temperatures, Tg, for the two carbohydrates at circa 0.7% moisture were 101 degrees C and 64 degrees C for trehalose and sucrose, respectively. Anhydrous amorphous trehalose had a Tg of 116 degrees C. The T0 values were found to be 44 and 3.5 degrees C for trehalose and sucrose, respectively. The Tg-T0 value for sucrose was compared, and found to be in good agreement with that found by enthalpy relaxation measurements. Trehalose was found to be resistant to crystallization above the glass temperature. The study supports the validity of the calculation method proposed by Pikal for T0. It has been proposed in the literature that T0 is a better measure of stability than Tg. Trehalose has a significantly high...Continue Reading

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