Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the problems in the prior art, the invention passes through systematic research and experiments, uses diethyl ether and water mixed solvent for crystallization, carries out crystallization through diethyl ether evaporation effect and stirring speed change, and adds a molecular sieve, thereby unexpectedly obtaining small-particle cyclophosphamide crystals.
The technical scheme of the invention is as follows:
step 1, adding a crude cyclophosphamide product into water for dissolving, wherein the weight ratio of the crude cyclophosphamide product to the water is 1: 4-20, filtering undissolved impurities;
step 2: and cooling, adding diethyl ether and a molecular sieve, stirring, removing the molecular sieve, continuously stirring, cooling, crystallizing, and performing vacuum filtration to obtain a filter cake, wherein the weight ratio of the cyclophosphamide crude product to the diethyl ether is 1: 5-9, wherein the weight ratio of the crude cyclophosphamide product to the molecular sieve is 5-30: 1;
and step 3: washing the molecular sieve and the suction filtration device with ether, combining the filtrates, removing ether from the filtrate, combining the obtained precipitate and the filter cake obtained in the step 2, and performing microwave vacuum low-temperature drying to obtain the product;
compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that the particle size of the product is smaller and more uniform, the stability can be kept to a certain degree at normal temperature and in the humidity range of 30-50 percent, and higher-quality raw materials are provided for clinical dosage and medicine preparation. Compared with the product obtained by a freezing process, the product of the invention has the advantages of single crystal, no inducer, obviously improved solubility and stability, no collapse of internal structure caused by excessive evaporation due to lower microwave drying temperature, no excessive expansion and pore problems, compact and stable particles, and capability of forming a non-critical body convenient for drying again.
As a further improvement of the invention, in the step 1, water is added in two parts, 2/3 water is added initially for dissolution, the temperature is heated to 50-55 ℃, and the rest 1/3 normal temperature water is added when the temperature is heated to above 50 ℃; as a preferred option, the dissolution process can be accelerated by stirring; as a preferable scheme, the weight ratio of the crude cyclophosphamide to water is 1: 5-18, further 1: 8-15, most preferably 1: 9-10;
as a further improvement of the invention, the molecular sieve of the step 2 is a 4A molecular sieve, preferably Na2O·Al2O3·2SiO2·9/2H2O; furthermore, the pore diameter is preferably less than or equal to 10nm, and the silicon-aluminum ratio is 2: 1 (SiO)2:Al2O3) Preferably, the particle size of the molecular sieve particles is more than or equal to 1 mm; the weight ratio of the cyclophosphamide crude product to the molecular sieve is preferably 10-20: 1, most preferably 10-15: 1;
as a further improvement of the invention, the weight ratio of the crude phosphoramide product and the diethyl ether in the step 2 is 1: 6-8; further, the step 2 comprises cooling the solution to 30 ℃, adding ether and a molecular sieve, stirring, removing the molecular sieve, continuing stirring, heating the solution to 35 ℃, naturally cooling to room temperature when white turbid substances appear along the wall of the container, continuing cooling to 5-10 ℃, stirring for 0.5-1h, and then carrying out vacuum filtration to obtain a filter cake; wherein the optimal removing time of the molecular sieve is to remove the molecular sieve when the solution is observed to be turbid and the turbidity is reduced to the bottle bottom and clear state; the preferred stirring speed is 40-45rpm when the temperature is 40-55 ℃, and 30-35rpm when the temperature is 25-40 ℃; when the temperature is 10-25 ℃, the stirring speed is 20-25rpm, and when the temperature is below 10 ℃, the stirring speed is reduced to 10-15 rpm;
as a further improvement of the invention, the method for removing the diethyl ether from the filtrate in the step 3 is to heat the filtrate to 35-40 ℃ to volatilize the diethyl ether;
as a further improvement of the invention, the method for removing the diethyl ether from the filtrate in the step 3 is filtration.
As the preferred scheme of the invention, the microwave drying temperature is 36-45 ℃, and the vacuum degree is 0.004-0.09 MPa; more preferably, the temperature is 38-42 ℃, the vacuum degree is 0.005-0.075MPa, and the microwave drying device is provided with a vacuum drying box and an automatic control system; the power is 200-.
Preferably, after drying at the power of 300-; the air humidity in the vacuum box is set between 15 and 39 percent; most preferably between 20 and 35%.
The average particle size of the cyclophosphamide (hydrate) crystal is less than or equal to 10 mu m, preferably less than or equal to 5 mu m, and most preferably less than or equal to 3 mu m.
The invention carries out microwave drying at lower temperature, ether is evaporated at boiling point first, the steam pressure of internal water vapor is in a passive drying state under the condition of low microwave power, partial aggregation is formed on the surface of the particles, particle pore channels are blocked, the balance of the crystallization state of cyclophosphamide monohydrate is achieved under the conditions of specific time, temperature and vacuum degree, the critical state is slightly changed by expansion along with the increase of microwave power to form radial driving force, internal water molecules are pushed to further evaporate, partial water molecules are directly extruded and evaporated in a liquid state, and relatively compact particles can be formed by shortening the drying time, meanwhile, the surface of the structure is sealed by crystal water, and water molecules are not easy to get into the structure from the air, so that the collapse condition of the internal structure is avoided, thereby forming solid powder which has stable structure and is not easy to liquefy in a certain humidity/temperature range.
The automatic control system can set corresponding programs for heating power and adjusting the microwave drying time to perform automatic adjustment within a certain range, pulse type drying can be performed, and the drying equipment can be assisted by adding a hot air exchanger or a reflux device to realize accurate control on the temperature, humidity and vacuum degree in the drying chamber; meanwhile, the device has a disinfection effect. The present invention does not require any terminal sterilization or sterile filtration.
The granules prepared by the invention are dried at low temperature, do not cause the problems of expansion or frozen collapse, have a non-critical stable state, and can be further dried to remove surface crystal water, so that the granules have finer gaps and surface areas, but the anhydrous hydrate needs stricter drying sealing in transportation packaging, including but not limited to nitrogen-filled sealing.
The solvent of the invention needs to be added with the molecular sieve, the molecular sieve has the effect which is not the effect of traditional drying and impurity removal, the crystallization speed is obviously improved after the addition, the solution has the dynamic change of turbid bottle bottom and clarification under the stirring state, the particle size of the final product is more uniform, the water solubility is improved, and the side effect of intravenous injection inflammation caused by insufficient water solubility is reduced.
Unless otherwise specified in the specification, the cyclophosphamide in the invention is cyclophosphamide monohydrate, g is weight unit 'g', h is time unit 'h', min is time unit 'min', ml is volume unit 'ml', mm is length unit 'mm', and the room temperature is 23-25 ℃, and the room temperature is 20 ℃.
Detailed Description
HPLC using Agilent1200 high performance liquid chromatograph (Agilent corporation, USA), the HPLC involved in the present invention example detects the following conditions:
chromatographic column C18, flow rate 1.0ml/min, column temperature 30 deg.C, detection wavelength 210nm, mobile phase 0.05mol/l water-acetonitrile (30:70)
The microwave vacuum low-temperature drying equipment adopts an RD-MXT type drying box; the other reagents were purchased from Hangzhou Kund chemical technology, Inc. or commercially available products.
Example 1:
adding 10g of crude cyclophosphamide into a three-necked bottle containing 60ml of water, stirring and heating to 50 ℃, continuously adding 30ml of normal temperature water, stirring and continuously maintaining at 50 ℃ until the crude cyclophosphamide is dissolved, and filtering out insoluble impurities at the bottom of the bottle; stirring at 45rpm, cooling to below 40 deg.C, reducing the rotation speed to 35rpm, cooling to 30 deg.C, adding 60g diethyl ether solutionAnd 1g of Na2O·Al2O3·2SiO2·9/2H2O (wherein the aperture is less than or equal to 10nm, the ratio of silicon to aluminum is 2: 1, and the particle size is more than or equal to 1mm), and the temperature is maintained for continuous stirring until the solution is no longer clear and the bottom of the bottle is clearer than the upper part, or the solution is slightly turbid until the bottom of the bottle becomes clearer; stopping stirring, quickly removing the molecular sieve, keeping the solution, continuously stirring, slightly heating to 35 ℃, stopping heating when white turbidity appears along the bottle wall, naturally cooling to room temperature, reducing the stirring speed to 25rpm, continuously cooling to below 10 ℃, reducing the stirring speed to 15rpm, continuously cooling to keep the temperature within the range of 5-10 ℃, stirring for 1h, and carrying out vacuum filtration to obtain a filter cake; washing the molecular sieve and the suction filtration port with ether, filtering the filtrate, mixing the obtained precipitate and the filter cake, naturally airing for 1h, placing in a vacuum drying oven of a microwave vacuum drying device, setting the temperature at 40 ℃, the humidity in the oven at 30%, the power at 300w and the vacuum degree at 0.07MPa, vacuum drying for 10min, adjusting the power to 600w and the vacuum degree at 0.01MPa, and continuously drying for 10min to obtain the product.
The purity (calculated by anhydrous cyclophosphamide) is 99.97% by HPLC (detection by HPLC), see detection attached figure 1. The yield is 81%; the scanning electron microscope is shown in figure 2.
Example 2:
adding 15g of crude cyclophosphamide into a three-necked bottle containing 100ml of water, stirring and heating to 55 ℃, continuously adding 50ml of normal temperature water, stirring until the mixture is dissolved, and filtering out impurities insoluble at the bottom of the bottle; stirring at 40rpm, cooling to below 40 deg.C, reducing the rotation speed to 30rpm, cooling to 30 deg.C, adding 120g diethyl ether solution and 1g Na2O·Al2O3·2SiO2·9/2H2O (wherein the aperture is less than or equal to 10nm, the ratio of silicon to aluminum is 2: 1, and the particle size is more than or equal to 1mm), continuously stirring at the temperature until the solution is not clarified any more, the bottom of the bottle is clarified than the upper part of the bottle, stopping stirring, quickly removing the molecular sieve, continuously stirring the solution, slightly heating the solution to 35 ℃, stopping heating when white turbidity appears along the wall of the bottle, naturally cooling the solution to room temperature, reducing the stirring speed to 20rpm, continuously cooling the solution to below 10 ℃, reducing the stirring speed to 10rpm, continuously cooling the solution to be kept within the range of 5-10 ℃, stirring for 40min, and performing vacuum filtration to obtain the productA filter cake; washing a molecular sieve and a suction filtration port with diethyl ether, heating to evaporate the diethyl ether, mixing the obtained precipitate and the filter cake, naturally airing for 1h, placing in a microwave vacuum drying device, setting the temperature at 39 ℃, the humidity in the box at 20%, the power at 500w, the vacuum degree at 0.08MPa, carrying out vacuum drying for 20min, adjusting the power to 1000w and the vacuum degree at 0.008MPa, and continuously drying for 10min to obtain a white powdery crystal.
The HPLC detection purity (calculated by anhydrous cyclophosphamide) is 99.89%, and the detection pattern is the same as that of example 1 and is cyclophosphamide monohydrate.
Example 3:
adding 10g of crude cyclophosphamide into a three-necked bottle containing 60ml of water, stirring and heating to 50 ℃, continuously adding 30ml of normal temperature water, stirring and continuously maintaining at 50 ℃ until the crude cyclophosphamide is dissolved, and filtering out insoluble impurities at the bottom of the bottle; stirring at 45rpm, cooling to below 40 deg.C, reducing the rotation speed to 35rpm, cooling to 30 deg.C, adding 60g diethyl ether solution and 1g Na2O·Al2O3·2SiO2·9/2H2O (wherein the aperture is less than or equal to 10nm, the ratio of silicon to aluminum is 2: 1, and the particle size is more than or equal to 1mm), and the temperature is maintained for continuous stirring until the solution is not clarified any more, and the bottom of the bottle is clearer than the upper part, or the solution is slightly turbid until the bottom of the bottle becomes clear; stopping stirring, quickly removing the molecular sieve, keeping the solution, continuously stirring, slightly heating to 35 ℃, stopping heating when white turbidity appears along the bottle wall, naturally cooling to room temperature, reducing the stirring speed to 25rpm, continuously cooling to below 10 ℃, reducing the stirring speed to 15rpm, continuously cooling to keep the temperature within the range of 5-10 ℃, stirring for 1h, and performing vacuum filtration to obtain a filter cake; washing molecular sieve and suction filtration port with diethyl ether, filtering the filtrate, mixing the obtained precipitate with the above filter cake, air drying for 1 hr, heating to 40 deg.C, vacuum drying, and volatilizing diethyl ether.
The HPLC detection purity (calculated by anhydrous cyclophosphamide) is 99.59%, and the detection pattern is the same as that of example 1 and is cyclophosphamide monohydrate. The electron microscope scan is shown in FIG. 3.
Example 4:
adding 15g of crude cyclophosphamide into a three-necked bottle containing 100ml of water, stirring and heating to 55 ℃, continuously adding 50ml of normal temperature water, stirring until the mixture is dissolved, and filtering out impurities insoluble at the bottom of the bottle; stirring at 40rpm for cooling to below 40 deg.C, reducing the rotation speed to 30rpm, cooling to 30 deg.C, adding 120g diethyl ether solution, maintaining the temperature, stirring, maintaining the solution turbid, keeping the solution, stirring, slightly heating to 35 deg.C, clarifying the solution, stopping heating, naturally cooling to room temperature, reducing the stirring speed to 20rpm, cooling to below 10 deg.C, reducing the stirring speed to 10rpm, continuously cooling to 5-10 deg.C, suspending oily substance, and no crystal precipitation.
Example 5:
adding 15g of crude cyclophosphamide into a three-necked bottle containing 100ml of water, stirring and heating to 45 ℃, continuously adding 50ml of normal temperature water, stirring until the mixture is dissolved, and filtering out impurities insoluble at the bottom of the bottle; stirring at 40rpm, cooling to below 40 deg.C, reducing the rotation speed to 30rpm, cooling to 30 deg.C, adding 120g acetone solution and 1g Na2O·Al2O3·2SiO2·9/2H2O (wherein the aperture is less than or equal to 10nm, the ratio of silicon to aluminum is 2: 1, and the particle size is more than or equal to 1mm), continuously stirring at the temperature until the solution is not clarified any more, the bottom of the bottle is clearer than the upper part of the bottle, stopping stirring, quickly removing the molecular sieve, continuously stirring the retained solution, slightly heating the solution to 35 ℃, gradually clarifying the solution, naturally cooling the solution to room temperature, reducing the stirring speed to 20rpm, continuously cooling the solution to below 10 ℃, reducing the stirring speed to 10rpm, continuously cooling the solution to 5 ℃, gradually turbidity and generating precipitates, cooling the solution to about 0 ℃, stirring for 240min, and performing vacuum filtration to obtain a filter cake; washing a molecular sieve and a suction filtration port with acetone, combining a precipitate obtained by filtering with the filter cake, naturally airing for 1h, placing in a microwave vacuum drying device, setting the temperature at 39 ℃, setting the humidity in the box to be 20%, the power to be 500w, the vacuum degree to be 0.08MPa, carrying out vacuum drying for 20min, increasing the power to be 1000w, and the vacuum degree to be 0.008MPa, and continuously drying for 10min to obtain a white powdery crystal.
The HPLC detection purity (calculated by anhydrous cyclophosphamide) is 97.89%, and the detection pattern is the same as that of example 1 and is cyclophosphamide monohydrate. The electron microscope scan is shown in FIG. 4.
Example 6
Dissolving 15g of cyclophosphamide in 150ml of water, heating and stirring the solution at 50 ℃ for dissolution, continuously cooling the solution to below-10 ℃, stirring the solution at a rotating speed of 60rpm for crystallization for 2 hours, heating the solution to above 0 ℃, and filtering and drying the solution to obtain cyclophosphamide crystals.
The HPLC detection purity (calculated by anhydrous cyclophosphamide) is 99.67%, and the detection pattern is the same as that of example 1 and is cyclophosphamide monohydrate.
Example 7
Dissolving 10g of crude cyclophosphamide product in 40ml of 1-methyl-3N-butylimidazole trifluoromethanesulfonamide salt at 35 ℃, adding 2ml of water, cooling to room temperature until the system becomes turbid, adding 0.1g of cyclophosphamide monohydrate seed crystal, cooling to 10 ℃, controlling the time to be 2h, stirring for 30min, carrying out suction filtration, washing a filter cake twice with ice water, and carrying out vacuum drying on the combined filtrate by a water pump at 20-25 ℃ to obtain the cyclophosphamide compound.
The HPLC detection purity (calculated by anhydrous cyclophosphamide) is 99.19%, and the detection pattern is the same as that of example 1 and is cyclophosphamide monohydrate.
Example 8:
adding 100g of crude cyclophosphamide into a three-necked bottle containing 600ml of water, stirring and heating to 50 ℃, continuously adding 300ml of normal-temperature water, stirring and continuously maintaining at 50 ℃ until the crude cyclophosphamide is dissolved, and filtering out insoluble impurities at the bottom of the bottle; stirring at 45rpm, cooling to below 40 deg.C, reducing the rotation speed to 35rpm, cooling to 30 deg.C, adding 600g diethyl ether solution and 10g Na2O·Al2O3·2SiO2·9/2H2O (wherein the aperture is less than or equal to 10nm, the ratio of silicon to aluminum is 2: 1, and the particle size is more than or equal to 1mm), and the temperature is maintained for continuous stirring until the solution is not clarified any more, and the bottom of the bottle is clearer than the upper part, or the solution is slightly turbid until the bottom of the bottle becomes clear; stopping stirring, quickly removing the molecular sieve, keeping the solution, continuously stirring, slightly heating to 35 ℃, stopping heating when white turbidity appears along the bottle wall, naturally cooling to room temperature, reducing the stirring speed to 25rpm, continuously cooling to below 10 ℃, reducing the stirring speed to 15rpm, continuously cooling to keep the temperature within the range of 5-10 ℃, stirring for 1h, and performing vacuum filtration to obtain a filter cake; washing the molecular sieve and the suction filtration port with diethyl ether, filtering the filtrate to obtain a precipitate and the aboveMixing the filter cakes, placing in a flat chassis, keeping the height of 1-2cm, naturally drying for 1h, freeze-drying, adding a freeze-inducing solution, drying for 1-2h at a set temperature of-5 to-10 ℃ under a pressure of 8-10Pa, reducing the pressure to 1Pa, and vacuum-drying for 1-2h to obtain the final product.
The HPLC detection purity (calculated by anhydrous cyclophosphamide) is 97.97%, the detection pattern is the same as that of example 1, and the detection pattern is cyclophosphamide monohydrate, and an electron microscope scanning image is shown in figure 5.
Example 9:
adding 10g of crude cyclophosphamide into a three-necked bottle containing 60ml of water, stirring and heating to 50 ℃, continuously adding 30ml of normal temperature water, stirring and continuously maintaining at 50 ℃ until the crude cyclophosphamide is dissolved, and filtering out insoluble impurities at the bottom of the bottle; stirring at 90rpm, cooling to below 40 deg.C, maintaining stirring speed, cooling to 30 deg.C, adding 60g diethyl ether solution and 1g Na2O·Al2O3·2SiO2·9/2H2O (wherein the aperture is less than or equal to 10nm, the ratio of silicon to aluminum is 2: 1, and the particle size is more than or equal to 1mm), and the temperature is maintained for continuous stirring until the solution is not clarified any more, and the bottom of the bottle is clearer than the upper part, or the solution is slightly turbid until the bottom of the bottle becomes clear; stopping stirring, quickly removing the molecular sieve, keeping the solution, continuously stirring, slightly heating to 35 ℃, stopping heating when white turbidity appears along the wall of the bottle, continuously stirring at the stirring speed of 90rpm, naturally cooling to room temperature, continuously cooling to below 10 ℃, keeping the temperature within the range of 5-10 ℃, stirring at 90rpm for 1h, and performing vacuum filtration to obtain a filter cake; washing the molecular sieve and the suction filtration port with ether, filtering the filtrate, mixing the obtained precipitate and the filter cake, naturally airing for 1h, placing in a vacuum drying oven of a microwave vacuum drying device, setting the temperature at 40 ℃, the humidity in the oven at 30%, the power at 300w and the vacuum degree at 0.07MPa, vacuum drying for 10min, adjusting the power to 600w and the vacuum degree at 0.02MPa, and continuously drying for 10min to obtain the product.
The HPLC detection purity (calculated by anhydrous cyclophosphamide) is 99.45%, and the detection pattern is the same as that of example 1. Are cyclophosphamide monohydrate; the electron microscope scan is shown in FIG. 6.
Test 1: physical property detection
The commercial product was used as a control, which was not used because the inventive example 4 did not form crystal precipitation within 2 hours.
1) Moisture absorption: evaluating the hygroscopicity of the products of each example under the condition of room temperature by using a water vapor adsorption analyzer, testing the products in the relative humidity range of 20-80%, and calculating the moisture absorption weight gain conditions of the products in 5min, 10min, 30min and 2h (expressed by the mass percentage of the moisture absorption weight gain); see table 1 for results;
2) solubility: tabletting by a conventional process, adding the pure cyclophosphamide monohydrate obtained in the above embodiment, adding 20% of an excipient, 10% of a filler and 5% of a lubricant, mixing, tabletting by a tabletting machine, and sealing and storing the tablets; wherein the excipient is microcrystalline cellulose, the filler is starch, and the lubricant is magnesium stearate. The dissolution rate of the tablets of the product of examples in a phosphoric acid buffer solution of sodium lauryl sulfate at room temperature was measured using a Distek dissolution apparatus (DISTEK Co., 2100A) and the dissolution surface area was 1cm2
See table 2 for results;
3) crystal appearance and particle size, uniformity of crystal morphology of examples was observed using an electron lens and average particle size was measured, and the results are shown in table 1.
TABLE 1
According to the results of the above table 1, the stability of examples 1-2 is high, the shape can be kept stable for a certain time in the humidity range of 20-40%, and the hygroscopicity is not high even under the high humidity condition, thereby providing convenience for the preparation and clinical configuration and use of the drug. And in the embodiment 5, acetone is used as a solvent, so that the product purity is not high, and the hygroscopicity is slightly poor. The control and example 6 were relatively dry, and the crystal water was unstable and liquefied. Examples 3, 7-8 are less stable, and example 7 has a hysteresis effect on moisture absorption in a drier environment, possibly related to microstructure. The particles of the examples 1-2 are small and compact, and the penetration of water molecules is difficult, which may result in high stability, while the stability of the example 9 is only good at 60% humidity, and the regulation range is narrow.
The above tests show the variation of stability of the crystals under different humidity conditions due to the transition from anhydrate-monohydrate, differences in internal structure. The crystallization process is very sensitive to temperature and slight environmental change, and the invention passes through a plurality of tests, so that the uncontrollable factors of the process are more. Particle size was determined by scanning electron microscopy and particle appearance was observed, the results are shown in table 2.
TABLE 2
It should be noted that no devitrification is formed in example 4 of the present invention, and it can be seen that the molecular sieve functions other than drying or adsorption or impurity removal. In fact, the molecular sieve and the ether are added, so that the crystallization speed is increased, the solution is subjected to dynamic change of turbid bottle bottom and clarification under the stirring state, the particle size of the final product is more uniform, and the final product has certain heat absorption efficiency, and the crystallization of the examples 1-3 is faster and the particles are uniform. The lyophilized example product then produced a larger particle size and instability above 40% humidity.
The above embodiments do not limit the scope of the present invention, and those skilled in the art can make various changes and applications of the functional, methodological or structural equivalents or substitutions without departing from the scope of the present invention.