Abstract

A PHARMACEUTICAL EUTECTICS: KEY ROLE IN DRUG DELIVERY

Shubam and *Dinesh Kaushik

Abstract

Eutectics mixture, amongst other binary systems like cocrystals, solid dispersion, solid solution and inclusion complexes can be utilised to simultaneously enhance more than one characteristics of drugs like dissolution, permeability, stability etc. So far their utility is exploited to a large pace in metallurgy, however very little is achieved in the field of pharmaceuticals. References suggests that eutectics can be made very easily (sometimes spontaneously) both on laboratory scale as well as on industrial scale. The present review comprehensively and succinctly presents vital information like criteria of historical background formation, method of preparation and evaluation parameter of eutectics, which would help to exploit them in the pharmaceutical field.

Keywords: Carrier, Eutectic mixtures, phase diagrams, crystal lattice.