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Chem Soc Rev. 2013 Sep 21;42(18):7638-48. doi: 10.1039/c3cs60014a. Epub 2013 Apr 03.

Mechanochemical preparation of co-crystals.

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Dario Braga, Lucia Maini, Fabrizia Grepioni

Affiliations

  1. Dipartimento di Chimica "G. Ciamician", Via Selmi 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy. [email protected].

PMID: 23549606 DOI: 10.1039/c3cs60014a

Abstract

The preparation of co-crystals via mechanochemistry combines the quest for clean and green processes with the investigation of multicomponent new materials, among the currently most fashionable systems in the crystal engineering field: the physico-chemical properties of the components add, merge or transform when co-crystals are formed, giving rise to potentially improved performance in "old" solid-state chemistry fields, as in the pharmaceutical industry field, where they represent a way to obtain new formulations and to improve the properties (solubility, thermal stability, compressibility, etc.) of both new and existing drugs.

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