Solubility and thermodynamic study of deferiprone in propylene glycol and ethanol mixture

Abstract

This work aims to obtain the solubility, density and thermodynamic parameters of deferiprone in propylene glycol and ethanol. For this purpose, a shake-flask technique was applied for solid–liquid equilibration and the spectrophotometry method was employed for solubility measurement. Solubility and density of deferiprone in non-aqueous mixtures of propylene glycol and ethanol were measured in the temperatures 293.2–313.2 K. Some equations including van’t Hoff, the Jouyban-Acree, the Jouyban-Acree-van’t Hoff, the mixture response surface and modified Wilson equations were used for the mathematical data modeling. The apparent thermodynamic parameters of the deferiprone dissolution process were computed and reported.