Salts of phenylacetic acid and 4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid with Cinchona alkaloids: Crystal structures, thermal analysis and FTIR spectroscopy

• Seven salts of Cinchona alkaloids with aromatic acids are reported.
• Six of the salts incorporate water/solvent in the crystal structure.
• FTIR spectroscopy and thermal analysis of the salts are discussed.
• Liquid assisted grinding and slurry experiments were conducted.
• Hirshfeld surface analyses for two isostructural salt hydrates are reported.

Seven salts were formed with phenylacetic acid (PAA), 4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid (HPAA) and the Cinchona alkaloids; cinchonidine (CIND), quinidine (QUID) and quinine (QUIN). For all the structures the proton was transferred from the carboxylic acid of the PAA/HPAA to the quinuclidine nitrogen of the respective Cinchona alkaloid. For six of the salts, water was included in the crystal structures with one of these also incorporating an isopropanol solvent molecule. However HPAA co-crystallised with quinine to form an anhydrous salt, (HPAA−)(QUIN+). The thermal stability of the salts were determined and differential scanning calorimetry revealed that the (HPAA−)(QUIN+) salt had the highest thermal stability compared to the other salt hydrates. The salts were also characterized using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. (PAA−)(QUID+)·H2O and (PAA−)(QUIN+)·H2O are isostructural and Hirshfeld surface analysis was completed to compare the intermolecular interactions in these two structures.

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