Synthon transferability probed with IR spectroscopy: cytosine salts as models for salts of lamivudine

Abstract

Co-crystal screening of the anti-HIV drug lamivudine was carried out with dicarboxylic acids as co-formers. Salts of cytosine, a molecule that incorporates critical structural features of lamivudine, with the same co-formers, were taken as model systems for IR spectroscopic studies of the synthons in the salts of lamivudine.