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Lamotrigine ethanol monosolvate
aSchool of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, England BS8 1TS, England
*Correspondence e-mail: simon.hall@bristol.ac.uk
Lamotrigine is an active pharmaceutical ingredient used as a treatment for epilepsy and psychiatric disorders. Single crystals of an ethanolate solvate, C9H7Cl2N5·C2H5OH, were produced by slow evaporation of a from anhydrous ethanol. Within the the lamotrigine molecules form dimers through N—H⋯N hydrogen bonds involving the amine N atoms in the ortho position of the triazine group. These dimers are linked into a tape motif through hydrogen bonds involving the amine N atoms in the para position. The ethanol and lamotrigine are present in a 1:1 ratio in the lattice with the ethyl group of the ethanol molecule exhibiting disorder with an occupancy ratio of 0.516 (14):0.484 (14).
Keywords: crystal structure; lamotrigine; ethanolate.
CCDC reference: 1826282
1. Chemical context
Anticonvulsants are a group of drugs used principally in the treatment of epilepsy, which have also been shown to aid in the treatment of psychiatric conditions such as bipolar disorder. Although the drugs are effective when inside the body, many suffer from having low solubility and bioavailability. Prime examples of such drugs are carbamazepine (Uzunović et al., 2010), phenytoin (Widanapathirana et al., 2015) and lamotrigine (Vaithianathan et al., 2015), which are all categorised as BCS (biopharmaceutical classification system) class II (low solubility, high permeability).
In an attempt to increase the solubility of BCS class II drugs, extensive studies have been undertaken to produce crystal structures including the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) with lower et al. (2010) investigated the solubility of 10 novel forms, including salts, co-crystals and solvates, showing the possibility of creating many stable lamotrigine compounds. The structures of lamotrigine co-crystals and solvates are stabilized due to the large number of hydrogen bonds that can form with the 1,2,4-triazine-3,5-diamine group.
energies. In the case of lamotrigine, CheneyIn this work, the structure for the ethanolate (I), previously only obtained as a powder pattern (Garti et al., 2008), is defined. This new affords a deeper insight into the different hydrogen-bonding networks that can form in the lamotrigine crystal.
2. Structural commentary
A displacement ellipsoid plot for lamotrigine ethanolate is shown in Fig. 1. The central dihedral, C1—C6—C7—C8, sits at an angle of 63.5 (9)°, the flexibility of which allows for the inclusion of solvent molecules to form hydrogen-bonding networks. Central dihedral angles for lamotrigine solvates are included in Table 1. Fig. 2 shows the for (I), which consists of eight lamotrigine molecules and eight ethanol molecules. The main motif within the structure is a lamotrigine dimer stabilized by two ethanol molecules. Here the lamotrigine dimer forms using the amine N atoms in the ortho position of the triazine group.
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3. Supramolecular features
In the crystal, adjacent in-plane lamotrigine dimers are linked via hydrogen bonding of the in the para position of the triazine group (Table 2). Each dimer sits at an angle of 67.2 (5)° to the next closest dimer, measured with respect to the in-plane triazine rings, highlighted in Fig. 3.
4. Database survey
A database survey of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD, version 5.38, last update May 2017; Groom et al., 2016) showed a list of 35 existing co-crystal/solvate structures for lamotrigine, including 6 structures incorporating but no ethanol solvate. The most similar structure compositionally to (I) is the ethanol solvate monohydrate (Cheney et al., 2010); however, the arrangement contrasts quite dramatically, with the dimer formation of the lamotrigine molecules using the amine N atoms in the para position, shown in Fig. 4. This change in dimerization motif leads to a reduction in density of the lamotrigine ethanolate over the lamotrigine ethanol monohydrate by 5%.
Analysis of the previously published lamotrigine alcohol solvates shows a trend between the alcohol chain length and whether the lamotrigine dimers form on the ortho or para group of the triazine. The two densest structures are the methanol disolvate (Hanna et al., 2009) and the ethanol solvate monohydrate, where lamotrigine dimers are connected via the in the para position of the triazine. Conversely, the methanol monosolvate (Janes et al., 1989), isopropanol solvate (Qian et al., 2009) and title compound form dimers from the amine on the ortho positions. The least dense structure is the butan-1-ol solvate monohydrate (Sridhar & Ravikumar, 2011), which has similar arrangement to the dense structures, with the dimers held apart by the large butanol solvent molecules. The densities of the lamotrigine structures are highlighted in Table 1.
5. Synthesis and crystallization
Lamotrigine (>98%, Acros Organics) was saturated in a solution of pure anhydrous ethanol (>99.5%, Sigma Aldrich) over several weeks. Crystals of lamotrigine ethanolate were produced via slow evaporation of 1 ml of the solution over 72 h.
6. Refinement
Crystal data, data collection and structure . All of the hydrogen atoms were located geometrically (aromatic C—H = 0.95 Å, methyl C—H = 0.98 Å, ethyl C—H = 0.99 Å, O—H = 0.84 Å N—H= 0.88 Å) and refined using a riding model [aromatic, ethyl and amine Uiso(H) = 1.2 times parent atom Ueq, methyl and alcohol Uiso(H) = 1.5 times parent atom Ueq]. The ethanol solvent in the lattice is disordered over two positions; the occupancies of the two positions were refined with the sum set to equal 1, refining to give relative occupancies of 52:48. Restraints (SIMU 0.01 0.02) were applied to maintain sensible thermal displacement parameters for the carbon atoms.
details are summarized in Table 3Supporting information
CCDC reference: 1826282
https://doi.org/10.1107/S2056989018005819/fy2126sup1.cif
contains datablock I. DOI:Structure factors: contains datablock I. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S2056989018005819/fy2126Isup2.hkl
Supporting information file. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S2056989018005819/fy2126Isup3.cml
Data collection: APEX2 (Bruker, 2015); cell
SAINT (Bruker, 2015); data reduction: SAINT (Bruker, 2015); program(s) used to solve structure: SHELXT (Sheldrick, 2015a); program(s) used to refine structure: SHELXL (Sheldrick, 2015b); molecular graphics: Olex2 (Dolomanov et al., 2009); software used to prepare material for publication: Olex2 (Dolomanov et al., 2009).C9H7Cl2N5·C2H6O | F(000) = 1248 |
Mr = 302.16 | Dx = 1.420 Mg m−3 |
Monoclinic, C2/c | Mo Kα radiation, λ = 0.71073 Å |
a = 21.2458 (15) Å | Cell parameters from 7221 reflections |
b = 10.2320 (8) Å | θ = 2.2–26.4° |
c = 14.8428 (11) Å | µ = 0.46 mm−1 |
β = 118.808 (4)° | T = 100 K |
V = 2827.3 (4) Å3 | Block, colourless |
Z = 8 | 0.39 × 0.25 × 0.13 mm |
Bruker APEXII CCD diffractometer | 2925 independent reflections |
Radiation source: fine-focus sealed tube | 2634 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
Graphite monochromator | Rint = 0.053 |
φ and ω scans | θmax = 26.6°, θmin = 2.2° |
Absorption correction: multi-scan (SADABS; Bruker, 2015) | h = −26→26 |
Tmin = 0.602, Tmax = 0.745 | k = −12→12 |
21376 measured reflections | l = −18→18 |
Refinement on F2 | Primary atom site location: dual |
Least-squares matrix: full | Hydrogen site location: inferred from neighbouring sites |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.098 | H-atom parameters constrained |
wR(F2) = 0.234 | w = 1/[σ2(Fo2) + 59.8676P] where P = (Fo2 + 2Fc2)/3 |
S = 1.41 | (Δ/σ)max < 0.001 |
2925 reflections | Δρmax = 0.62 e Å−3 |
193 parameters | Δρmin = −0.87 e Å−3 |
48 restraints |
Geometry. All esds (except the esd in the dihedral angle between two l.s. planes) are estimated using the full covariance matrix. The cell esds are taken into account individually in the estimation of esds in distances, angles and torsion angles; correlations between esds in cell parameters are only used when they are defined by crystal symmetry. An approximate (isotropic) treatment of cell esds is used for estimating esds involving l.s. planes. |
Refinement. The occupancies of the disordered atoms in the ethanol were refined with their sum set to equal 1. Restraints were applied to maintain sensible thermal and geometric parameters. The diffraction data showed slight splitting of some peaks but twinning could not be sensibly separated and modelled. However this may explain the large K values, slightly high second weight paramater and Fobs greater than Fcalc. |
x | y | z | Uiso*/Ueq | Occ. (<1) | |
Cl1 | 0.16117 (9) | 0.41684 (18) | 0.10486 (12) | 0.0254 (4) | |
Cl2 | 0.06655 (8) | 0.37527 (18) | 0.21033 (13) | 0.0256 (4) | |
O1 | 0.4106 (2) | 0.2925 (5) | 0.4111 (3) | 0.0192 (10) | |
H1A | 0.397808 | 0.357810 | 0.371958 | 0.029* | 0.484 (14) |
H1B | 0.398027 | 0.358121 | 0.372284 | 0.029* | 0.516 (14) |
N3 | 0.3251 (3) | 0.6534 (5) | 0.1015 (4) | 0.0136 (10) | |
N4 | 0.2195 (3) | 0.7095 (5) | 0.0967 (4) | 0.0145 (11) | |
H4A | 0.208617 | 0.757236 | 0.041803 | 0.017* | |
H4B | 0.189512 | 0.705023 | 0.121767 | 0.017* | |
N1 | 0.3666 (3) | 0.5147 (6) | 0.2792 (4) | 0.0177 (11) | |
N2 | 0.4130 (3) | 0.5288 (6) | 0.2425 (4) | 0.0185 (12) | |
N5 | 0.4347 (3) | 0.6032 (7) | 0.1152 (4) | 0.0293 (15) | |
H5A | 0.422053 | 0.646160 | 0.057650 | 0.035* | |
H5B | 0.477226 | 0.565850 | 0.147585 | 0.035* | |
C6 | 0.2549 (3) | 0.5427 (6) | 0.2790 (4) | 0.0144 (12) | |
C8 | 0.2808 (3) | 0.6445 (6) | 0.1415 (4) | 0.0133 (12) | |
C7 | 0.3022 (3) | 0.5648 (6) | 0.2321 (4) | 0.0142 (12) | |
C4 | 0.2351 (4) | 0.5649 (7) | 0.4253 (5) | 0.0191 (13) | |
H4 | 0.251372 | 0.593442 | 0.493888 | 0.023* | |
C3 | 0.1697 (3) | 0.5029 (7) | 0.3727 (5) | 0.0193 (14) | |
H3 | 0.140279 | 0.491009 | 0.404086 | 0.023* | |
C2 | 0.1470 (3) | 0.4581 (7) | 0.2738 (5) | 0.0176 (13) | |
C9 | 0.3894 (3) | 0.5948 (7) | 0.1536 (5) | 0.0189 (13) | |
C5 | 0.2772 (3) | 0.5859 (7) | 0.3788 (5) | 0.0188 (13) | |
H5 | 0.321851 | 0.630185 | 0.415469 | 0.023* | |
C1 | 0.1893 (3) | 0.4782 (6) | 0.2273 (5) | 0.0152 (12) | |
C10B | 0.4570 (8) | 0.2138 (16) | 0.3909 (13) | 0.024 (3) | 0.484 (14) |
H10A | 0.435281 | 0.197369 | 0.316042 | 0.029* | 0.484 (14) |
H10B | 0.464411 | 0.128524 | 0.426119 | 0.029* | 0.484 (14) |
C11B | 0.5275 (8) | 0.2819 (16) | 0.4283 (14) | 0.030 (4) | 0.484 (14) |
H11A | 0.519935 | 0.365998 | 0.393000 | 0.045* | 0.484 (14) |
H11B | 0.559689 | 0.227634 | 0.414026 | 0.045* | 0.484 (14) |
H11C | 0.549146 | 0.296685 | 0.502588 | 0.045* | 0.484 (14) |
C10A | 0.4866 (8) | 0.2617 (17) | 0.4439 (12) | 0.030 (3) | 0.516 (14) |
H10C | 0.500914 | 0.183860 | 0.489087 | 0.036* | 0.516 (14) |
H10D | 0.516983 | 0.335764 | 0.484496 | 0.036* | 0.516 (14) |
C11A | 0.5000 (8) | 0.2356 (15) | 0.3545 (12) | 0.030 (3) | 0.516 (14) |
H11D | 0.466604 | 0.168389 | 0.310075 | 0.045* | 0.516 (14) |
H11E | 0.549503 | 0.205101 | 0.380438 | 0.045* | 0.516 (14) |
H11F | 0.492715 | 0.316205 | 0.315082 | 0.045* | 0.516 (14) |
U11 | U22 | U33 | U12 | U13 | U23 | |
Cl1 | 0.0342 (9) | 0.0289 (9) | 0.0201 (8) | −0.0150 (7) | 0.0189 (7) | −0.0098 (7) |
Cl2 | 0.0144 (7) | 0.0370 (10) | 0.0260 (8) | −0.0077 (7) | 0.0102 (6) | 0.0040 (7) |
O1 | 0.017 (2) | 0.024 (2) | 0.020 (2) | 0.0066 (18) | 0.0105 (18) | 0.0100 (19) |
N3 | 0.010 (2) | 0.018 (3) | 0.011 (2) | 0.003 (2) | 0.004 (2) | 0.004 (2) |
N4 | 0.011 (2) | 0.020 (3) | 0.012 (2) | 0.005 (2) | 0.006 (2) | 0.007 (2) |
N1 | 0.016 (3) | 0.023 (3) | 0.016 (3) | 0.001 (2) | 0.010 (2) | 0.003 (2) |
N2 | 0.010 (2) | 0.031 (3) | 0.015 (3) | 0.006 (2) | 0.007 (2) | 0.008 (2) |
N5 | 0.017 (3) | 0.056 (4) | 0.019 (3) | 0.017 (3) | 0.012 (2) | 0.018 (3) |
C6 | 0.015 (3) | 0.016 (3) | 0.013 (3) | 0.005 (2) | 0.008 (2) | 0.004 (2) |
C8 | 0.014 (3) | 0.015 (3) | 0.012 (3) | 0.000 (2) | 0.007 (2) | −0.001 (2) |
C7 | 0.009 (3) | 0.019 (3) | 0.014 (3) | 0.000 (2) | 0.006 (2) | 0.000 (2) |
C4 | 0.025 (3) | 0.020 (3) | 0.013 (3) | 0.003 (3) | 0.010 (3) | 0.003 (3) |
C3 | 0.021 (3) | 0.022 (3) | 0.023 (3) | 0.009 (3) | 0.018 (3) | 0.009 (3) |
C2 | 0.014 (3) | 0.021 (3) | 0.019 (3) | −0.001 (3) | 0.009 (3) | 0.002 (3) |
C9 | 0.015 (3) | 0.027 (4) | 0.017 (3) | 0.008 (3) | 0.010 (2) | 0.008 (3) |
C5 | 0.015 (3) | 0.024 (3) | 0.015 (3) | 0.002 (3) | 0.006 (2) | 0.004 (3) |
C1 | 0.019 (3) | 0.015 (3) | 0.012 (3) | 0.003 (2) | 0.009 (2) | 0.002 (2) |
C10B | 0.020 (5) | 0.026 (5) | 0.028 (5) | 0.006 (5) | 0.013 (4) | 0.005 (5) |
C11B | 0.020 (7) | 0.028 (7) | 0.044 (8) | 0.008 (6) | 0.017 (6) | 0.015 (6) |
C10A | 0.017 (5) | 0.039 (6) | 0.031 (5) | 0.007 (5) | 0.011 (4) | 0.013 (5) |
C11A | 0.030 (6) | 0.027 (7) | 0.040 (7) | 0.009 (6) | 0.021 (6) | 0.008 (6) |
Cl1—C1 | 1.735 (6) | C8—C7 | 1.446 (8) |
Cl2—C2 | 1.725 (6) | C4—H4 | 0.9500 |
O1—H1A | 0.8400 | C4—C3 | 1.377 (9) |
O1—H1B | 0.8400 | C4—C5 | 1.386 (9) |
O1—C10B | 1.413 (15) | C3—H3 | 0.9500 |
O1—C10A | 1.477 (14) | C3—C2 | 1.384 (9) |
N3—C8 | 1.335 (7) | C2—C1 | 1.387 (8) |
N3—C9 | 1.344 (8) | C5—H5 | 0.9500 |
N4—H4A | 0.8800 | C10B—H10A | 0.9900 |
N4—H4B | 0.8800 | C10B—H10B | 0.9900 |
N4—C8 | 1.322 (8) | C10B—C11B | 1.50 (2) |
N1—N2 | 1.345 (7) | C11B—H11A | 0.9800 |
N1—C7 | 1.304 (8) | C11B—H11B | 0.9800 |
N2—C9 | 1.346 (8) | C11B—H11C | 0.9800 |
N5—H5A | 0.8800 | C10A—H10C | 0.9900 |
N5—H5B | 0.8800 | C10A—H10D | 0.9900 |
N5—C9 | 1.336 (8) | C10A—C11A | 1.51 (2) |
C6—C7 | 1.490 (8) | C11A—H11D | 0.9800 |
C6—C5 | 1.392 (9) | C11A—H11E | 0.9800 |
C6—C1 | 1.391 (9) | C11A—H11F | 0.9800 |
C10B—O1—H1A | 109.5 | N5—C9—N2 | 116.5 (6) |
C10A—O1—H1B | 109.5 | C6—C5—H5 | 119.7 |
C8—N3—C9 | 116.9 (5) | C4—C5—C6 | 120.6 (6) |
H4A—N4—H4B | 120.0 | C4—C5—H5 | 119.7 |
C8—N4—H4A | 120.0 | C6—C1—Cl1 | 119.8 (5) |
C8—N4—H4B | 120.0 | C2—C1—Cl1 | 119.2 (5) |
C7—N1—N2 | 121.7 (5) | C2—C1—C6 | 120.9 (6) |
N1—N2—C9 | 116.9 (5) | O1—C10B—H10A | 109.8 |
H5A—N5—H5B | 120.0 | O1—C10B—H10B | 109.8 |
C9—N5—H5A | 120.0 | O1—C10B—C11B | 109.3 (13) |
C9—N5—H5B | 120.0 | H10A—C10B—H10B | 108.3 |
C5—C6—C7 | 119.2 (6) | C11B—C10B—H10A | 109.8 |
C1—C6—C7 | 122.4 (5) | C11B—C10B—H10B | 109.8 |
C1—C6—C5 | 118.3 (6) | C10B—C11B—H11A | 109.5 |
N3—C8—C7 | 118.6 (5) | C10B—C11B—H11B | 109.5 |
N4—C8—N3 | 118.5 (5) | C10B—C11B—H11C | 109.5 |
N4—C8—C7 | 122.9 (5) | H11A—C11B—H11B | 109.5 |
N1—C7—C6 | 117.3 (5) | H11A—C11B—H11C | 109.5 |
N1—C7—C8 | 119.9 (5) | H11B—C11B—H11C | 109.5 |
C8—C7—C6 | 122.7 (5) | O1—C10A—H10C | 109.0 |
C3—C4—H4 | 119.8 | O1—C10A—H10D | 109.0 |
C3—C4—C5 | 120.5 (6) | O1—C10A—C11A | 112.8 (12) |
C5—C4—H4 | 119.8 | H10C—C10A—H10D | 107.8 |
C4—C3—H3 | 120.2 | C11A—C10A—H10C | 109.0 |
C4—C3—C2 | 119.6 (6) | C11A—C10A—H10D | 109.0 |
C2—C3—H3 | 120.2 | C10A—C11A—H11D | 109.5 |
C3—C2—Cl2 | 119.3 (5) | C10A—C11A—H11E | 109.5 |
C3—C2—C1 | 120.0 (6) | C10A—C11A—H11F | 109.5 |
C1—C2—Cl2 | 120.7 (5) | H11D—C11A—H11E | 109.5 |
N3—C9—N2 | 125.6 (5) | H11D—C11A—H11F | 109.5 |
N5—C9—N3 | 117.9 (6) | H11E—C11A—H11F | 109.5 |
D—H···A | D—H | H···A | D···A | D—H···A |
O1—H1A···N1 | 0.84 | 2.01 | 2.848 (7) | 179 |
N4—H4A···N3i | 0.88 | 2.10 | 2.972 (7) | 172 |
N4—H4B···O1ii | 0.88 | 2.14 | 2.841 (7) | 137 |
N5—H5A···O1iii | 0.88 | 2.16 | 3.014 (7) | 163 |
N5—H5B···N2iv | 0.88 | 2.14 | 2.987 (8) | 161 |
Symmetry codes: (i) −x+1/2, −y+3/2, −z; (ii) −x+1/2, y+1/2, −z+1/2; (iii) x, −y+1, z−1/2; (iv) −x+1, y, −z+1/2. |
Structure | Central dihedral angle (°) | Dimerization motif | Density (g cm-1) |
Methanol disolvate | 63.7 (2) | para | 1.50 |
Ethanol monohydrate | 67.6 (0) | para | 1.49 |
Methanol monosolvate | 80.1 (5) | ortho | 1.45 |
Ethanol solvate (I) | 63.5 (9) | ortho | 1.42 |
Isopropanol solvate | 69.6 (8) | ortho | 1.36 |
Butan-1-ol solvate monohydrate | 71.2 (1) | para | 1.34 |
Funding information
SRH, CLH and JP would like to thank MagnaPharm, a collaborative research project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme (grant No. 736899), the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials (EP/G036780/1) and the Centre for Doctoral Training in Condensed Matter Physics (EP/L015544/1).
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