Journal
JOURNAL OF THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY
Volume 99, Issue 3, Pages 987-992Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10973-010-0708-x
Keywords
Cephalexin; Thermal stability; Kinetic parameters; NPK method
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The thermoanalytical curves (TA), i.e. TG, DTG and DTA for pure cephalexin and its mixtures with talc, magnesium stearate, starch and microcrystalline cellulose, respectively, were drawn up in air and nitrogen at a heating rate of 10 A degrees C min(-1). The thermal degradation was discussed on the basis of EGA data obtained for a heating rate of 20 A degrees C min(-1). Until 250 A degrees C, the TA curves are similar for all mixtures, up this some peculiarities depending on the additive appears. These certify that between the pure cephalosporin and the excipients do not exists any interaction until 250 A degrees C. A kinetic analysis was performed using the TG/DTG data in air for the first step of cephalexin decomposition at four heating rates: 5, 7, 10 and 12 A degrees C min(-1). The data processing strategy was based on a differential method (Friedman), an integral method (Flynn-Wall-Ozawa) and a nonparametric kinetic method (NPK). This last one allowed an intrinsic separation of the temperature, respective conversion dependence on the reaction rate and less speculative discussions on the kinetic model. All there methods had furnished very near values of the activation energy, this being an argument for a single thermooxidative degradation at the beginning (192-200 A degrees C).
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