Structures of Polymorphic Agomelatine and Its Cocrystals with Acetic Acid and Ethylene Glycol
作者:Sai-Li Zheng、Jia-Mei Chen、Wei-Xiong Zhang、Tong-Bu Lu
DOI:10.1021/cg101234p
日期:2011.2.2
Two polymorphic structures of Form II and Form III of agomelatine were determined by single and powder X-ray diffraction, respectively, in which the agomelatine molecules are linked through the intermolecular hydrogen bonding interactions to form a one-dimensional (1D) chain, and the ID chains are further packed through interchain pi center dot center dot center dot pi and C-H center dot center dot center dot pi interactions to generate the three-dimensional (3D) structures. Two agomelatine cocrystals with acetic acid (1) and ethylene glycol (2) were synthesized, and their structures were determined by single and powder X-ray diffraction, respectively, in which the acetic acid molecules in 1 alternately link the agomelatine molecules to form I D right-handed and left-handed helical chains, while the alternately linking of agomelatine molecules by ethylene glycol molecules in 2 generates the homochiral right-handed helical chains. After the formation of cocrystals of 1 and 2, the melting points dramatically decrease, and the solubility is approximately twice as large as that of Form II.