Salts (hydrochloride/sulfate) of drugs?

You always read that most drugs are sold as salts, i.e., as hydrochloride or sulfate. But salts are ionic bonds, and the molecules of most drugs (except for psilocybin) are not (partially) charged, so how can a salt be formed?

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MeisterRuelps, UserMod Light

The salt or the charged form is easily obtained by using a base or acid. This presupposes that there are azide protons or atoms with electron pairs (nitrogen) which can absorb a proton.

It is important that at least part of the acid or base comes from a strong same. This is important precisely because the process of deprotination is not immediately reversed.

The salts have a much better solubility in water than the pure form.

In the body, the reversal may occur and the substance loses its polarity and can penetrate into the cells etc.

indiachinacook
3 years ago

Many drugs (cocaine, morphine, heroin) are bases. Since they can be readily ex­tracted and purified as salts, they are usually commercially available as such. In this case, it can be reconverted into the base form by treatment with sodium or the like. The basic properties of these substances (which have also been incorporated into them by the same name Alkaloides) follow from the presence of trivalent N atoms in the molecule — an additional H+ can always be added, just as in the NH3.

MeisterRuelps, UserMod Light
Reply to  indiachinacook

Although this may be the case in drugs (or often) ABER, in pharmacy this is more important for the solubility in the respective target organism. Note that many drugs have different pKs values due to their functional groups and therefore tend to absorb or release protons.

Had the subject in the lecture on medical chemistry 😉

069keinplan069
3 years ago

well I know only with kokain as I had a lot to do with it in my lifetime

kokain the pure is always a salt in each case

at speed there are different forms but always dirty

in halucinogenic causes 2-cb is a salt in pure form

in lsd it is not possible to make it in salt form as well as in mushrooms

Who1517
3 years ago
Reply to  clockFaZe

Base -> crack, so it comes from the plant. Hydrochloride-> the cocaine that is scrubbed

069keinplan069
3 years ago

yes

Who1517
3 years ago

better it is. Did you have to go to jail?

069keinplan069
3 years ago

I have no more of them

but a place in the holle

Who1517
3 years ago

No, just for the sake of interest

069keinplan069
3 years ago

if you want to kill/ lose your family.

Who1517
3 years ago

Does it pay?

069keinplan069
3 years ago

I’ll tell you who’s falling high so no

that business is so dirty I can only say

have paid for 1 kg 25k

100k costs that on the road and if you still stretch it, you make so much money that you will eventually get jerked off

Who1517
3 years ago

I don’t care about it

are you still talking about it? (Write for a friend)

069keinplan069
3 years ago

that 2 is very unlikely as I traded with it at 16 years:DD

069keinplan069
3 years ago

pasta basica 😀

So either you have no idea of kokain or I have to learn more :DD

Who1517
3 years ago

True it is called in the beginning, “pasta basica” because I thought it was basic

069keinplan069
3 years ago

mostly is made with natron

because it is cheaper

069keinplan069
3 years ago

ehm no crack is cooked with the hydrochloride

depends on either ammonia or sodium

in the lowlands cook it already kokain to crack

or make it already partially (cocain)

they have already been brought to the rubers because there are already many methods how to make it…