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Solid-state Study of Mepivacaine Hydrochloride

Solid-state Study of Mepivacaine Hydrochloride

V Giannellini, M Bambagiotti-Alberti, G Bartolucci, B Bruni, S A Coran, F Costantino, M Di Vaira

J Pharm Biomed Anal. 2005 Sep 15;39(3-4):444-54.

PMID: 15950424

Abstract:

Different crystalline forms of the local anaesthetic mepivacaine hydrochloride (MH) were revealed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), not by conventional differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The existence of two polymorphic anhydrous modifications was discovered and further characterized by X-ray powder diffraction and thermal analysis: Form II, the commercial one, and the more stable Form I, obtained by re-crystallization from Form II. Two pseudopolymorphs were also obtained: Form III, a solvate crystallized from ethanol and Form IV, a solvate crystallized from methanol. Single crystal X-ray diffraction data for both solvates were collected and their structures were determined. Form II, metastable and monotropically related to Form I, generates through desolvation of Form III, very often present in industrial processing, where crystallization from ethanol solution is a common practice. For the sake of clarity, the presence of polymorphic forms should be reported in the drug master files of MH. However, since MH is readily water soluble, the observed polymorphism has no relevance to its typical clinical use as aqueous solutions.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP1722629-B	(±)-Mepivacaine hydrochloride		1722-62-9	Price

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