title: A model to represent solvent effects on the chemical stability of solutes in mixed solvent systems.
abstract: The applicability of the combined nearly ideal binary solvent/Redlich-Kister (CNIBS/R-K) equation for quantification of solvent effects on the stability of a solute is shown employing the experimental data of three solutes in different aqueous binary solvents. The proposed model provides a simple computational method to correlate/predict the instability rate constant of a drug in mixed solvent systems. The accuracy of the model is compared with that of a model proposed by Connors and co-workers employing various methods including mean percentage deviation (MPD) as comparison criteria. The obtained overall MPD values for the proposed model to correlate and predict the instability rate constants are 2.05 +/- 1.44 and 4.41 +/- 3.21%, respectively, where the corresponding values for Connors' model are 4.34 +/- 3.28 and 10.74 +/- 9.86%. The results suggest that by using only five experimental instability rate constants at different concentrations of the cosolvent in a binary mixture, it is possible to predict unmeasured values falling between data points within an acceptable error range.
authors.affiliation: School of Pharmacy, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz 51664, Iran. jouyban@tbzmed.ac.ir
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jouyban
authors.forename: H K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barzegar-Jalali
authors.forename: W E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Acree
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D004355:Drug Stability; D008956:Models, Chemical; D012996:Solutions / Q000737:chemistry*; D012997:Solvents / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D012996:Solutions; D012997:Solvents