Solid-state NMR is a powerful and sensitive analytical tool for directly characterizing active pharmaceutical ingredients in a drug product without interference from excipients. This work focuses on identifying the hydration state in a non-stochiometric hydrate in a 1% drug load capsule formulation using 19F ssNMR with other characterization techniques.
Determination of the water content in a non-stoichiometric hydrate(NSH), when present in a formulation, is extremely important due to physico-chemical and content uniformity issues potentially caused by the variability in the lattice water content, which changes with external RH. ssNMR was used to identify the hydration state in one such NSH (active) formulated as a 1% drug load capsule since this technique bypasses interference from formulation excipients. Using the changes in peak shifts observed in the 0-100% RH range, 19F ssNMR could successfully determine the lattice water content (0-0.85 moles) in NSH in the drug product.
Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 17:00 CET
This presentation focuses on the utility of ssNMR in successfully determining the state of hydration in a non-stoichometric hydrate formulated as a capsule with an extremely low drug load (1%) in the 0-100% RH range, by utilizing changes in peak shifts as a function of RH.
Dr. Jonathan Hau
Senior Scientific Researcher at Genentech
Jonathan has worked at Genentech, Inc. for 15 years in the Synthetic Molecule Pharmaceutics group and is currently in the Solid-state Chemistry group. He has extensive experience with the analysis of crystalline and amorphous drug substances as well as complex drug product formulations.
Dr. Martial Piotto
Pharma product manager of Biologics solutions
Martial Piotto obtained his Ph.D. in NMR spectroscopy at the University of Purdue, USA (Pr. D. Gorenstein). He then joined Bruker France as head of NMR application where he worked on various aspects of NMR spectroscopy, notably the development of new pulse sequences and HRMAS technology. Over the years, he grew an interest in applications of NMR in the pharmaceutical and medical fields. His work currently focusses on the characterization of Biologics (mAb, vaccines and therapeutic oligonucleotides) by combining NMR and multivariate statistical tools.