TY - JOUR
T1 - Crystal Habit Modification of Metronidazole by Supramolecular Gels with Complementary Functionality
AU - Jayabhavan, Sreejith Sudhakaran
AU - Steed, Jonathan W.
AU - Damodaran, Krishna K.
N1 - Funding Information: We thank University of Iceland Research Fund and Science Institute for funding. S.S.J. thanks the University of Iceland for the doctoral research grant. We thankfully acknowledge Dr. Dmitry S. Yufit, Department of Chemistry, Durham University, U.K., for face indexing the crystals from different gelators. We also acknowledge Dr. Sigríđur Jónsdóttir and Dr. Friđrik Magnus, University of Iceland, for NMR/mass spectroscopy and powder X-ray diffraction analysis, respectively. We thank Rannís Iceland for infrastructure grants (150998-0031 and 191763-0031) for a single-crystal X-ray diffractometer and rheometer. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/9/1
Y1 - 2021/9/1
N2 - A series of bis(urea) compounds with complementary functional groups similar to the pharmaceutical drug metronidazole and a structural isomer isometronidazole have been synthesized. The gelation properties of these compounds were studied in various solvent/solvent mixtures. The mechanical strength of the isomeric gelators was compared using rheology, and the morphologies of the xerogels were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy. These gels were used as media for metronidazole crystallization resulting in a marked habit modification of the metronidazole crystals in the drug-mimicking gels. However, crystallization in the nonmimetic isomeric gel resulted in morphologies similar to the solution state. These results indicate that the drug-mimetic gels interact with the surface of the drug crystal giving rise to new morphologies.
AB - A series of bis(urea) compounds with complementary functional groups similar to the pharmaceutical drug metronidazole and a structural isomer isometronidazole have been synthesized. The gelation properties of these compounds were studied in various solvent/solvent mixtures. The mechanical strength of the isomeric gelators was compared using rheology, and the morphologies of the xerogels were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy. These gels were used as media for metronidazole crystallization resulting in a marked habit modification of the metronidazole crystals in the drug-mimicking gels. However, crystallization in the nonmimetic isomeric gel resulted in morphologies similar to the solution state. These results indicate that the drug-mimetic gels interact with the surface of the drug crystal giving rise to new morphologies.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85113149429
U2 - 10.1021/acs.cgd.1c00659
DO - 10.1021/acs.cgd.1c00659
M3 - Article
SN - 1528-7483
VL - 21
SP - 5383
EP - 5393
JO - Crystal Growth and Design
JF - Crystal Growth and Design
IS - 9
ER -