Determination of acid dissociation constants, enthalpy, entropy and Gibbs free energy of the baricitinib by the UV-metric and pH-metric analysis.

Baricitinib is a drug used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. It is a selective and reversible inhibitor of Janus kinases 1 and 2, which play an important role in signalling the pro-inflammatory pathway activated in autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis. The pH-spectrophotometric and pH-potentiometric titrations allowed the measurement of three or four successive dissociation constants of Baricitinib. Baricitinib neutral LH2 molecule was able to protonate into two soluble cations LH42+, LH3+ and dissociate into two soluble anions LH- and L2- in pure water. The graph of molar absorption coefficients of differently protonated species versus wavelength indicated that the spectra εL, εLH, εLH2 were the nearly the same for these species and that the spectra εLH4 and εLH3 were also similar. In the pH range from 2-13, four pKa´s of spectra analysis were reliably estimated by REACTLAB at I =0.0020 mol. dm-3 values pKTa1 = 3.07, pKTa2 = 3.87, pKTa3 = 6.27, pKTa4 = 12.78 at 25 °C and pKTa1 = 3.00, pKTa2 = 3.79, pKTa3 = 6.12, pKTa4 = 12.75 at 37 °C. Potentiometric pH-titration analysis for a higher concentration of 1 × 10-3 mol. dm-3 estimated with ESAB at I =0.0001 mol. dm-3 values pKTa1 = 3.69, pKTa2 = 3.81, pKTa3 = 4.73 at 25 °C and pKTa1 = 3.62, pKTa2 = 3.73, pKTa3 = 4.43 at 37 °C. Molar enthalpy ΔH°, molar entropy ΔS° and Gibbs free energy ΔG° were calculated from the spectra using a dependence ln K to 1/T.

The dissociation constants of the cytostatic bosutinib by nonlinear least-squares regression of multiwavelength spectrophotometric and potentiometric pH-titration data.

Potentiometric and spectrophotometric pH-titration of the multiprotic cytostatics bosutinib for dissociation constants determination were compared. Bosutinib treats patients with positive chronic myeloid leukemia. Bosutinib exhibits four protonatable sites in a pH range from 2 to 11, where two pK are well separated (ΔpK>3), while the other two are near dissociation constants. In the neutral medium, bosutinib occurs in the slightly water soluble form LH that can be protonated to the soluble cation LH4(3+). The molecule LH can be dissociated to still difficultly soluble anion L(-). The set of spectra upon pH from 2 to 11 in the 239.3-375.0nm was divided into two absorption bands: the first one from 239.3 to 290.5nm and the second from 312.3 to 375.0nm, which differ in sensitivity of chromophores to a pH change. Estimates of pK of the entire set of spectra were compared with those of both absorption bands. Due to limited solubility of bosutinib the protonation in a mixed aqueous-methanolic medium was studied. In low methanol content of 3-6% three dissociation constants can be reliably determined with SPECFIT/32 and SQUAD(84) and after extrapolation to zero content of methanol they lead to pKc1=3.43(12), pKc2=4.54(10), pKc3=7.56(07) and pKc4=11.04(05) at 25°C and pKc1=3.44(06), pKc2=5.03(08) pKc3=7.33(05) and pKc4=10.92(06) at 37°C. With an increasing content of methanol in solvent the dissociation of bosutinib is suppressed and the percentage of LH3(2+) decreases and LH prevails. From the potentiometric pH-titration at 25°C the concentration dissociation constants were estimated with ESAB pKc1=3.51(02), pKc2=4.37(02), pKc3=7.97(02) and pKc4=11.05(03) and with HYPERQUAD: pKc1=3.29(12), pKc2=4.24(10), pKc3=7.95(07) and pKc4=11.29(05).

Reliability of dissociation constants and resolution capability of SQUAD(84) and SPECFIT/32 in the regression of multiwavelength spectrophotometric pH-titration data.

The resolving power of multicomponent spectral analysis and the computation reliability of the stability constants and molar absorptivities determined for five variously protonated anions of physostigmine salicylate by the SQUAD(84) and SPECFIT/32 programs has been examined with the use of simulated and experimental spectra containing overlapping spectral bands. The reliability of the dissociation constants of drug was proven with goodness-of-fit tests and by examining the influence of pre-selected noise level s(inst)(A) in synthetic spectra regarding the precision s(pK) and also accuracy of the estimated dissociation constants. Precision was examined as the linear regression model s(pK)=ß(0)+ß(1)s(inst)(A). In all cases the intercept ß(0) was statistically insignificant. When an instrumental error s(inst)(A) is small and less than 0.5 mAU, the parameters' estimates are nearly the same as the bias ΔpK=pK(a,calc)-pK(a,true) is quite negligible. In all four dissociation constants the bias seems to be quite small even though for pK(a4) it is a little bit higher, i.e., +0.05 for s(inst)(A) about 1.0 mAU. In the interval of s(inst)(A) from 0.1 to 1.0 mAU all four dissociation constants pK(i) are accurate enough. Of the various regression diagnostics considered, the goodness-of-fit is the most efficient criterion of whether the parameters found adequately represent the data. The magnitude of instrumental error s(inst)(A) only slightly affects the shape of a Cattel's scree graph s(k)(A)=f(k) to determine the true number of light-absorbing species in the equilibrium mixture.