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Drug Analysis in Pharmaceutical Development and Drug Manufacturing

This special issue belongs to the section “Medicinal Chemistry“.

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Dear Colleagues,

Drug analysis includes aspects of drugs identification and quantitative analysis, characterizing their molecular structures, crystalline/amorphous phases, size, shape, and orientation of the particles, assessing their affinity, specificity, solubility and stability, testing their efficiency in vitro and in vivo and also current control during drug manufacturing.

Prof. Dr. Ioan Tomuta
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Process analytical technology (PAT)
  • Spectrometric techniques (FTIR, NIR, Raman, Terahertz, NMR, MS, MS/MS, and others)
  • Chemometrics
  • Multivariate data analysis
  • Chromatographic techniques (HPLC, UPLC, TLC, GC, SFC, and others)
  • Thermal analysis techniques (TG, DTG, DSC, DTA, TDP and others)
  • Solid state analysis
  • XRPD
  • Mechanical and physical properties of powder
  • Method validation
  • Sample preparation

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