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The Ubiquity of the Tabletability Flip Phenomenon
ZijianWang,ChenguangWang,DeepakBahl,ChangquanCalvinSun
International Journal of Pharmaceutics Pub Date : 07/24/2023 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1016/j.ijpharm.2023.123262
Abstract
The plasticity of materials plays a critical role in adequate powder tabletability, which is required in developing a successful tablet product. Generally, a more plastic material can develop larger bonding areas when other factors are the same, leading to higher tabletability than less plastic materials. However, it was observed that, for a solid form of a compound with poorer tabletability, a mixture with microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) can actually exhibit better tabletability, a phenomenon termed tabletability flip. Hence, there is a chance that a solid form with poor tabletability could have been erroneously eliminated based on the expected tabletability challenges during tablet manufacturing. This study was conducted to investigate the generality of this phenomenon using two polymorph pairs, a salt and free acid pair, a crystalline and amorphous dispersion pair, and a pair of chemically distinct crystals. Results show that tabletability flip occurred in all six systems tested, including five pairs of binary mixtures with MCC and one pair in a realistic generic tablet formulation, suggesting the broad occurrence of the tabletability flip phenomenon, where both compaction pressure and the difference in plasticity between the pair of materials play important roles.
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