Thermal behavior of some phenitoine pharmaceuticals

The topic of the present work is to study the thermal behavior of phenitoine and pharmaceuticals by means of kinetic parameters determined in non-isothermal conditions. The TG/DTG data were obtained at four heating rates. These data were processed by the following methods: Friedman (FR), Budrugeac-Segal (BS) and the modified non-parametric kinetics (Sempere-Nomen). The main conclusions of the kinetic study are: The FR method is versatile, but the values of the kinetic parameters are not certain, especially by multistep processes. The BS method offer a non-variant part of the activation energy, but the kinetic description is only formal. The NPK method is able to discriminate between two or more steps of a complex process. In our case, there are a preponderant process (more than 70% of the explained variance). By the NPK method there is a non-speculative separation of the temperature, respective conversion degree dependence of the reaction rate.