Ionic liquids as effective additives to enhance the solubility and permeation for puerarin and ferulic acid

Ionic liquids, especially the cholinium-amino acid-based ionic liquids (CHAAILs), have recently been found to be effective ingredients in formulation of transdermal drug delivery system. In this work, we synthesized six CHAAILs, and investigated their ability to enhance the solubility and permeation of two active pharmaceutic ingredients (APIs), i.e. ferulic acid and puerarin. The solubility measurements showed that a low amount of CHAAILs can significantly increase the solubility of APIs. Moreover, the effective enhancement of permeation of APIs across a polyethersulfone (PES) membrane was achieved at low concentration (4 mg ml−1) of CHAAILs. It is more worthwhile that the presence of CHAAIL brings much less cytotoxicity as compared to traditional types of ionic liquids. Therefore, CHAAILs can be considered as great potential candidates of green and effective additives in transdermal drug delivery systems.

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