Thermodynamic dissociation constants of silychristin, silybin, silydianin and mycophenolate by the regression analysis of spectrophotometric data

Mixed dissociation constants of four drug acids, i.e. silychristin, silybinin, silydianin and mycophenolate at various ionic strengths I of range 0.01 and 0.30 and at temperatures of 25 and 37 ◦C were determined using the SQUAD(84) regression analysis program applied to pH-spectrophotometric titration data. The proposed strategy of an efficient experimentation in a protonation constants determination, followed by a computational strategy for the chemical model with a protonation constants determination, is presented on the protonation equilibria of silychristin. The thermodynamic dissociation constant pKa was estimated by non-linear regression of {pKa, I} data at 25 and 37 ◦C: for silychristin pKTa,1 = 6.52(16) and 6.62(1), pKTa,2 = 7.22(13) and 7.41(5), pKTa,3 = 8.96(9) and 8.94(9), pKTa,4 = 10.17(7) and 10.03(8), pKTa,5 = 11.89(4) and 11.63(7); for silybin pKTa,1 = 7.00(4) and 6.86(5), pKTa,2 = 8.77(11) and 8.77(3), pKTa,3 = 9.57(8) and 9.62(1), pKTa,4 = 11.66(3) and 11.38(1); for silydianin pKTa,1 = 6.64(7) and 7.10(6), pKTa,2 = 7.78(5) and 8.93(1), pKTa,3 = 9.66(9) and 10.06(11), pKTa,4 = 10.71(7) and 10.77(7), pKTa,5 = 12.26(5) and 12.14(5); for mycophenolate pKa = 8.32(1) and 8.14(1). Goodness-of-fit tests for various regression diagnostics enabled the reliability of parameter estimates to be found. © 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.