|Articles|November 5, 2021

Cannabinoids Salt Screening with the Crystal16

The term pharmaceutical salt is used to refer to an ionizable drug that has been combined with a counter-ion to form a neutral complex. More than half of all drug molecules on the market are salts. The main reason behind this is that in general, salts have more desirable aqueous solubility (and implicitly bioavailability) profiles compared to the free acid or the free base API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient).


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