Efficient Purification of an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient via Cocrystallization: From Thermodynamics to Scale-Up

Cocrystallization as a purification step was the only way to isolate an active pharmaceutical ingredient with acceptable chemical and physical specifications. The process design controlling chemical quality and polymorphism issues is described, from the thermodynamics of cocrystal formation and cleavage, to microscale data acquisition, to laboratory scale-up and transfer to the pilot plant.