Chloral Hydrate Polymorphs and Cocrystal Revisited: Solving Two Pharmaceutical Cold Cases
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- 作者：Daniel O‿Nolan ; Miranda L. Perry ; Michael J. Zaworotko
- 刊名：Crystal Growth & Design
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：April 6, 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：16
- 期：4
- 页码：2211-2217
- 全文大小：435K
- ISSN：1528-7505
文摘
Chloral hydrate has the distinction of perhaps being the first reported example of a pharmaceutical compound to exhibit polymorphism (1877) and the first use of a pharmaceutical cocrystal in a drug product (Beta-Chlor, 1960s). Nevertheless, chloral hydrate represents a microcosm of contemporary issues in solid-state chemistry and its importance to pharmaceutical science. Ironically, the single crystal structures of the β-form of chloral hydrate and its pharmaceutical cocrystal with betaine have not yet been reported. In this contribution, the single crystal structures and physical properties of these crystal forms are reported for the first time. The previously termed “high temperature” β-form of chloral hydrate was obtained by melting the α-form of chloral hydrate and crystallizing from the melt. The α-form of chloral hydrate is comprised of diol–diol homodimers that further assemble into a sheet of six-membered rings. The β-form is sustained by head-to-tail OH···O hydrogen bonds that form a sheet built from two types of three- and five-membered rings. The diol–diol interactions that sustain these polymorphs are placed in context through a Cambridge Structural Database analysis. The chloral hydrate–betaine cocrystal (CHOBTN) was obtained by slow cooling from water, exhibits higher thermal stability than the chloral hydrate polymorphs, and is sustained by a previously known 2-point diol-carboxylate supramolecular heterosynthon that could be of general utility.