Dissolution Kinetics of Some Alkyl Derivatives of Acetaminophen

Abstract
Intrinsic aqueous dissolution rates are shown to be better related to octanol-water partition coefficients than to aqueous solubilities, for six alkyl derivatives of acetaminophen. Aqueous solubilities are shown to relate surprisingly well to partition coefficients, but this is probably due to the very close structural similarity of the compounds investigated. The activation energy of dissolution does not vary greatly with lipophilicity, which suggests that the mechanism of dissolution is the same for all the compounds studied.

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