Application of CO Supercritical Fluid to Optimize the Solubility of Oxaprozin: Development of Novel Machine Learning Predictive Models.

Journal: Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
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Abstract

Over the last years, extensive motivation has emerged towards the application of supercritical carbon dioxide (SCCO) for particle engineering. SCCO has great potential for application as a green and eco-friendly technique to reach small crystalline particles with narrow particle size distribution. In this paper, an artificial intelligence (AI) method has been used as an efficient and versatile tool to predict and consequently optimize the solubility of oxaprozin in SCCO systems. Three learning methods, including multi-layer perceptron (MLP), Kriging or Gaussian process regression (GPR), and k-nearest neighbors (KNN) are selected to make models on the tiny dataset. The dataset includes 32 data points with two input parameters (temperature and pressure) and one output (solubility). The optimized models were tested with standard metrics. MLP, GPR, and KNN have error rates of 2.079 × 10, 2.173 × 10, and 1.372 × 10, respectively, using MSE metrics. Additionally, in terms of R-squared, they have scores of 0.868, 0.997, and 0.999, respectively. The optimal inputs are the same as the maximum possible values and are paired with a solubility of 1.26 × 10 as an output.

Authors

  • Saad M Alshahrani
    Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 173, Al-Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.
  • Ahmed Al Saqr
    Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 173, Al-Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.
  • Munerah M Alfadhel
    Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 173, Al-Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.
  • Abdullah S Alshetaili
    Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 173, Al-Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.
  • Bjad K Almutairy
    Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 173, Al-Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.
  • Amal M Alsubaiyel
    Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Qassim University, Buraidah, 52571, Saudi Arabia.
  • Ali H Almari
    Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, King Khalid University, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia.
  • Jawaher Abdullah Alamoudi
    Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 145111, Saudi Arabia.
  • Mohammed A S Abourehab
    Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia.