6665 _ Trends in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient SaltSelection based on Analysis of the Orange Book Database G. Steffen Paulekuhn,’* Jennifer B. Dressman,* and Christoph Saal** .. Merck KGaA, Frankfurter Strasse 250, 64293 Darmstadt,Germany, and Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology, Biocenter, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Max von Laue Street 9, 60438 Frankfurt (Main), Germany Received August 20, 2007 The Orange Bookdatabase published by the US.
Properties such as solubil- ity, dissolution rate, hygroscopicity, stability, impurity profiles, and crystal habit canbe influenced by using a variety of pharmaceutically acceptable counterions.8 Even polymorphism issues can be resolved in many cases by formation ofsalts.
'°"° Owing to dramatic changes in the techniques applied in pharmaceutical discovery programs over the past 20 years, the physical chemical properties of development candidates have changedsubstantially.’ Drug design based on high-throughput screening has in general led to more lipophilic compounds exhibiting/low aqueoussolubility.
On the other hand, publications giving an overview of approved salt forms are very few.”3 All publica- tions known to the authors dealing with occurrence of coun- terions for formation of pharmaceuticalsalts list the counterions and their distribution in the respective data set only at a given point in time.
Relative incidencesof all anions used in FDA- approved oral formulations are presented in Table 4, The anion Silver Procaine Benzathine (1) mma Calcium (12) Piperazine ~ Potassium C= Cholinate (1) Megiumine gama Diethanolamine (1) ~~ Magnesium Diethylamine (1) .--- LYSINE Diethylamine mmm Lysine (1) Diethanolamine Magnesium (2) Cholinate mage MVeglumine (5) fe Calcium => Piperazine (1) wmzas Potassium (11) sq Procaine(1) wm Silver (1) saa Sodium (131) tama Tromethamine (3) = Zine @) fo