| Solubility profile for mesalazine in the mixtures of ethylene glycol and water is measured by a shake-flask
method at 293.2–313.2 K. Results indicated that the experimental mole fraction solubility of mesalazine in the
investigated mixtures increases with increasing the mass fraction of ethylene glycol at a given temperature.
Moreover, the mole fraction solubility of mesalazine shows a positive relation with temperature variations as expected. The five solubility models including van't Hoff, the mixture response surface, Jouyban-Acree, JouybanAcree-van't Hoff and the modified Wilson models are applied to correlate the experimental solubility data. The
accuracy of the employed models is investigated by computation of the mean relative deviations (MRD%) for
back-calculated data. Furthermore, apparent thermodynamic properties of standard enthalpy, Gibbs free energy
and entropy of the dissolution process are calculated and discussed. Moreover, by means of inverse KirkwoodBuff integrals, it is observed that mesalazine is preferentially solvated by water and preferentially solvated by ethylene glycol in mixtures of 0.24 < x1 < 1.00. |