Crystallographic and Computational Analysis of the Solid-Form Landscape of Three Structurally Related Imidazolidine-2,4-dione Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients: Nitrofurantoin, Furazidin, and Dantrolene
Crystal Growth and Design 2023
Aija Trimdale-Deksne, Artis Kons, Liāna Orola, Liliana Mazur, Anatolijs Mišņovs, Magdalena Skiba, Marta K. Dudek, Nicolas Fantozzi, David Virieux, Evelina Colacino, Agris Bērziņš

We present a crystallographic and computational study of three hydantoin-based active pharmaceutical ingredients─nitrofurantoin, furazidin, and dantrolene─aimed at identifying factors resulting in different propensities of these compounds to form polymorphs, hydrates, solvates, and solvate-hydrates. This study is a continuation of our research toward understanding how small structural differences in closely related compounds affect their propensity to form different crystal phases, as all three compounds contain an imidazolidine-2,4-dione scaffold and a N-acyl hydrazone moiety and all form multiple crystalline phases. Crystallographic and computational analysis of the already known and newly obtained nitrofurantoin, furazidin, and dantrolene crystal structures was performed by dissecting the properties of individual molecules and searching for differences in the tendency to form hydrogen bonding patterns and characteristic packing features. The propensity to form solvates was found to correlate with the relative packing efficiency of neat polymorphs and solvates and the ability of molecules to pack efficiently in several different ways. Additionally, the differences in the propensity to form solvate-hydrates were attributed to the different stability of the hydrate phases.


DOI
10.1021/acs.cgd.2c01142
Hyperlink
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.cgd.2c01142

Trimdale-Deksne, A., Kons, A., Orola, L., Mazur, L., Mišņovs, A., Skiba, M., Dudek, M., Fantozzi, N., Virieux, D., Colacino, E., Bērziņš, A. Crystallographic and Computational Analysis of the Solid-Form Landscape of Three Structurally Related Imidazolidine-2,4-dione Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients: Nitrofurantoin, Furazidin, and Dantrolene. Crystal Growth and Design, 2023, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp.930-945. ISSN 1528-7483. Available from: doi:10.1021/acs.cgd.2c01142

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English (en)
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