Study the solubility of pharmaceutical ingredients and their eutectic mixtures: An in-depth density functional theory and molecular dynamics simulations approaches

Abstract

Solubility is a major concern for many active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and drugs. Owing to their better solubility, biodegradability and low toxicity of APIs and drugs, eutectic mixtures are emerging as the system to enhance their solubility with no loss of biological activity. In the present work, authors have taken camizestrant, deucravacitinib, and iclepertin as the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) because they have poor solubility in water. Authors have designed eutectic mixtures (EMs) of the selected APIs with the amino acids (aspartic acid, lysine, phenylalanine, and proline) and studied for their physiochemical properties in default and water using density functional theory calculations, performed by Gaussian. The solubility of the APIs, amino acids and the designed eutectic mixtures of APIs have been determined and discussed using the dipole moment. The results showed that the solubility of the designed eutectic mixtures have better aqueous solubility than the APIs alone. Further, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were done for APIs and EMs to study their stability and interactions.