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In this paper, the molecular dynamics as well as inter- and intramolecular interactions in the homogenous solid dispersions (SDs) of active pharmaceutical ingredient - probucol (PRO) with acetylated glucose (acGLU), acetylated sucrose (acSUC), and sucrose acetoisobutyrate (aibSUC), prepared in 5:1 molar ratio, have been investigated using broadband dielectric (BD) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Importantly, high pressure dielectric measurements revealed that as for neat PRO, a breakdown of the isochronal structural (α) and JG- β exact superpositioning, due to increasing separation between both processes under compression, can also be detected in its mixtures with acetylated saccharides (acSACCHs). Furthermore, the analysis of temperature dependences of JG- β -relaxation times for PRO and PRO-acSACCH SDs at selected isobaric conditions indicated the increase in the cooperativity of the secondary process (reflected in the value of the activation entropy, Δ S β) at elevated pressure in all systems. The mere addition of the small amount of excipient to neat PRO (p = 0.1 MPa) resulted in a greater value of Δ S β (it was the most noticeable in the case of aibSUC). Further FTIR studies carried out on the pressure densified glasses of PRO, and binary mixtures suggested that the observed changes in the cooperativity of the JG- β -process, as well as the failure of the exact isochronal superpositioning of α - and JG- β relaxation times, are due to varying H-bond pattern in the examined single- and two-component systems at high compression/in the presence of saccharide. [Display omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, thermal and structural properties, as well as molecular dynamics of co-amorphous binary mixtures composed of itraconazole (ITZ) and four other active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) with antifungal activity (posaconazole (POS), ketoconazole (KET), fluconazole (FLU), and voriconazole (VOR)), have been investigated. Calorimetric measurements indicated that with increasing concentration of each excipient (EXC), the glass transition temperature and phase transition temperatures, related to the formation of nematic and smectic order, are affected in the binary systems. Comprehensive analysis of the enthalpy of isotropic-nematic transition and the temperature dependence of the order parameter, calculated from infrared data for selected mixtures, supported by the results of X-ray diffraction , enabled us to confirm the suppression of liquid crystalline (LC) ordering in ITZ by KET, FLU, and VOR. On the other hand, ITZ enforced the nematic-like molecular arrangement of POS. Further dielectric measurements revealed that the type of EXC and its content in the mixture have no impact on the ratio of α - and δ -relaxation times (τ α and τ δ , respectively) in ITZ. Moreover, it was shown that δ -process is more sensitive to the isotropic-nematic phase transition than the α -one, and the formation of the nematic phase in this API occurs at different τ α and τ δ , dependently on the type of EXC and its concentration in the mixture. Summarizing, the results of our studies are much different with respect to those reported previously by Kozyra et al. [Mol. Pharm. 15 (2018) 5192–5206] and by some of us [Kaminska et al. Eur. J. Pharm. Biopharm. 88 (2014) 1094–1104] for ITZ mixed with various polymers and acetylated maltose, respectively. This finding clearly indicates that there is a different impact of the low and high molecular weight excipients on the ability in the formation of LC phases in ITZ, which may have important implications for the further development of the formulations of this pharmaceutical. Unlabelled Image • The degree of spatial arrangement of ITZ molecules is affected in binary systems. • The smectic ordering in ITZ is being suppressed by POS, KET, FLU and VOR. • In the ITZ-POS binary mixture, ITZ enforces the molecular (nematic) order of POS. • Results of our studies are in contrast to those reported for ITZ-polymer systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]