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Working Party on
Pharmaceutically Acceptable Salts of Drug Substances


Book tentative contents

PHARMACEUTICAL SALTS
Properties, Selection and Use

INTRODUCTION: Reasons for salt formation
Objectives pursued in forming salts

PART 1: SALT FORMATION:
THE THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

  • CHAPTER 1: Ionic equilibria
  • CHAPTER 2: Evaluation of solid-state properties of salts
  • CHAPTER 3: Solubility and dissolution
  • CHAPTER 4: Pharmaceutical aspects

PART 2: THE PRACTICE OF SALT FORMATION

  • CHAPTER 5: Salt selection strategies
  • CHAPTER 6: Biological effects of the drug salt form
  • CHAPTER 7: Industrial/large scale aspects of salt preparation. Salt formation as a solution to industrial processing
  • CHAPTER 8: Regulatory and Patent Issues

PART 3: LISTS , TABLES AND PROCEDURES

  • CHAPTER 9: Individual salt-forming agent monographs: a compilation of characteristics of various salt forming acids
  • CHAPTER 10: Classification of the salt formers
    • Table 1: Acids. Order: Increasing pKa
    • Table 2: Bases. Order: Decreasing pKa
    • Table 3: First class salt-formers
    • Table 4: Second class salt-formers
    • Table 5: Third class salt-formers (� exotic � salt-formers)
  • CHAPTER 11 Examples of procedures

CONCLUSION

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