Abstract
The effect of hydrotrope sodium cumene sulfonate (SCS) on the solubility of a sparingly water-soluble drug, griseofulvin, is studied by employing classical molecular dynamics simulation technique. We mainly focus on the underlying mechanism by which SCS enhances the solubility of a sparingly soluble or insoluble solute in water. The main observations are the following: (a) The self-aggregation of SCS molecules (through its hydrophobic tail) above the minimum hydrotrope concentration (MHC) causes the formation of micellar-like frameworks. Interestingly, though the drug griseofulvin possesses both polar and nonpolar groups, it prefers to get encapsulated inside the hydrophobic core of SCS aggregates. The decomposition of total SCS-drug interaction energy into van der Waals and electrostatic components suggests that the former plays a major role in this interaction. (b) The calculated Flory-Huggins interaction parameter values give a strong indication of the mixing ability of hydrotrope SCS and griseofulvin drug molecules. (c) As expected, we do not observe any strong effect of SCS aggregates on SCS-water and water-water average hydrogen-bond number, but it affects water-drug griseofulvin average hydrogen-bond number. With the help of these observations we try to elucidate the hydrotropic action of hydrotrope SCS on the solubility of drug griseofulvin.
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