Estudos de caracterização e estabilidade de dispersões sólidas contendo ibuprofeno

Abstract

Most active pharmaceutical ingredients are made largely for being administered orally. A major challenge for medicinal products development containing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) with low solubility, especially Class II according to Biopharmaceutical Classification System - BCS, is to add technology to the development process in order to increase the bioavailability of these APIs and at the same time ensure their stability. Thus, the objective was to develop analytical methods to characterize lyophilized solid dispersions of ibuprofen obtained by using carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), hydroxymethylpropylcellulose (HPMC) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) 6000, comparing them in terms of thermal stability. The dispersions were characterized correlating the data obtained by the following techniques: Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Differential Scanning Calorimetry Coupled to a Photovisual System (DSC-photovisual), Thermogravimetry Analysis (TG) and Vibrational Absorption using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) to investigate possible physical and/or chemical interaction between the ibuprofen and its excipients. For thermal stability evaluation, the products were subjected to dynamic thermogravimetric analysis, by applying Osawa kinetic model, and to isothermal analysis by Arrhenius model at temperatures of 125, 130, 135, 140 and 145 °C, showing zero order kinetics reaction for the drug in the two models applied. According to the data obtained from the thermal analysis for the characterization and stability, the lyophilized solid dispersions containing PEG as a dispersing agent were more stable. The DSC and FTIR data showed the absence of physical and chemical interaction between the formulation components.