Clarence KeiKwan Chum, Iain Robert Gladwell, Ivan Marziano, Matteo Salvalaglio
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We investigate the influence of oligomeric impurities on the crystallization of ritlecitinib tosylate, an active pharmaceutical compound, using a combined experimental and molecular modeling approach. Ritlecitinib oligomers, particularly hexamers, were identified as key species hindering crystal growth. Experimental outcomes highlighted the inhibitory effects of oligomers on crystallization kinetics, yield, and physical properties. Simplified free energy methods based on the linear interaction energy model revealed a nonmonotonic relationship between oligomer size and surface affinity, with hexamers having the most prominent tendency to block the surface of ritlecitinib tosylate crystals, thus impacting crystal growth. A competitive Langmuir adsorption isotherm model quantified the reduction in crystal growth rates due to oligomer adsorption, providing a systematic approach to understanding these inhibitory effects. This research enhances our understanding of the molecular mechanisms governing oligomer adsorption, and more generally, impurity adsorption, on crystal surfaces and offers insights for designing crystal growth inhibitors in pharmaceutical applications.
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The journal Organic Process Research & Development serves as a communication tool between industrial chemists and chemists working in universities and research institutes. As such, it reports original work from the broad field of industrial process chemistry but also presents academic results that are relevant, or potentially relevant, to industrial applications. Process chemistry is the science that enables the safe, environmentally benign and ultimately economical manufacturing of organic compounds that are required in larger amounts to help address the needs of society. Consequently, the Journal encompasses every aspect of organic chemistry, including all aspects of catalysis, synthetic methodology development and synthetic strategy exploration, but also includes aspects from analytical and solid-state chemistry and chemical engineering, such as work-up tools，process safety, or flow-chemistry. The goal of development and optimization of chemical reactions and processes is their transfer to a larger scale; original work describing such studies and the actual implementation on scale is highly relevant to the journal. However, studies on new developments from either industry, research institutes or academia that have not yet been demonstrated on scale, but where an industrial utility can be expected and where the study has addressed important prerequisites for a scale-up and has given confidence into the reliability and practicality of the chemistry, also serve the mission of OPR&D as a communication tool between the different contributors to the field.
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