Journal
CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN
Volume 19, Issue 5, Pages 2751-2757Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.8b01881
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- Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Therapeutics and Nanomedicine
- EPSRC [EP/L01646X]
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Olanzapine is a polymorphic drug molecule that has been extensively studied, with over 60 structures reported in the Cambridge Structural Database. All anhydrous and solvated forms of olanzapine known to date contain the SC0 dimer packing motif. In this study, a new screening approach was adopted involving heat-induced forced crystallization from a polymer-based molecular dispersion of olanzapine. Simultaneous differential scanning calorimetry-powder X-ray diffraction was used to heat the amorphous dispersion and to identify a novel physical form from diffraction and heat flow data. Comparison of the diffraction data with those from a computed crystal energy landscape allowed the crystal structure to be determined. The result was the discovery of a new polymorph, form IV, which does not use the SC0 motif. Hence, while dimer formation is the dominant process that defines crystal packing for olanzapine formed from solution, it seems that molecularly dispersing the drug in a polymeric matrix permits crystallization of alternative motifs. Having identified form IV, it proved possible to scale up the synthesis and demonstrate its enhanced dissolution properties over form I.
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