| Experimental solubility of minoxidil was obtained in binary aqueous mixtures of ethanol, methanol and acetonitrile at 298.2 K. The effects of pH and micellisation were investigated on the solubility of the drug. Experimental solubility data was correlated by three co-solvency models, i.e. Yalkowsky, CNIBS/R-K, and the modified Wilson model. Density functional theory and hybrid functional B3LYP method was used with Polarisable Continuum Model (PCM) to correlate the experimental solubility data in various mass fractions of the binary solvent mixtures. We report the results of solute–solvent interaction energy as free energy of solvation (∆Gsol) of minoxidil in various mass fractions of ethanol + water mixtures. Total electrostatic energy, dipole moment, total Gibbs free energy and dielectric constant (ε) of minoxidil were also investigated. |