title: Pharmaceutical cocrystals: an overview.
abstract: Pharmaceutical cocrystals are emerging as a new class of solid drugs with improved physicochemical properties, which has attracted increased interests from both industrial and academic researchers. In this paper a brief and systematic overview of pharmaceutical cocrystals is provided, with particular focus on cocrystal design strategies, formation methods, physicochemical property studies, characterisation techniques, and recent theoretical developments in cocrystal screening and mechanisms of cocrystal formations. Examples of pharmaceutical cocrystals are also summarised in this paper.
authors.affiliation: School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK.
authors.forename: Ning
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Qiao
authors.forename: Mingzhong
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Walkiria
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Schlindwein
authors.forename: Nazneen
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Malek
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Trappitt
mesh_terms: D003460:Crystallization; D015195:Drug Design; D015394:Molecular Structure; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000737:chemistry*; D012995:Solubility
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations