Research Article

Quantifying Solid-State Mixtures of Crystalline Indomethacin by Raman Spectroscopy Comparison with Thermal Analysis

Table 1

The alpha and gamma indomethacin-specific Raman and IR peaks and their bond assignments used in our study [21].

Polymorphic formRaman peak (cmāˆ’1)/peak assignmentIR peak (cmāˆ’1)/peak assignment

Alpha1648 hydrogen bonded acid (C=O) stretch1649 hydrogen bonded acid (C=O)
1680 hydrogen bonded acid (C=O)1681 hydrogen bonded acid (C=O)
1692 benzoyl (C=O)1688 benzoyl (C=O)
1733 nonhydrogen bonded acid (C=O)

Gamma1698, Benzoyl (C=O)1717 asymmetric acid (C=O) of a cyclic dimer
1698 benzoyl (C=O)