Drug substances zwitterionic

During the course of a study of the salts formed by saccharin with quinine, haloperidol, mirtazapine, pseudoephedrine, lamivudine, risperidone, sertraline, venlafaxine, zolpidem, and amlodipine, a 1 1 cocrystal of saccharin and piroxicam was detected [68]. In the crystal structure, the asymmetric unit was found to consist of one saccharin molecule and one zwitterionic piroxicam molecule that were linked by two sets of N—H O hydrogen bonds. The piroxicam-saccharin synthons were in turn linked through bridging C—H O hydrogen bonds. Interestingly, the drug substance solubility out of the cocrystal was found to be comparable to that of the marketed piroxicam product. 

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