Use of SBA-15 mesoporous silica and colloidal silica as terfenadine adsorbents. A comparative study

Terfenadine was adsorbed from its solns. in MeCN on a SBA-15 and Aerosil SiO2. Nonlinear fitting anal. was used to estimate the parameters of the Freundlich, Langmuir, Jovanovic, Dubinin-Astakhov and Redlich-Peterson isotherms. The max. adsorption capacity was 160.4 mg/g and 85.7 mg/g (Dubinin-Astakhov model) for SBA-15 and Aerosil silicas resp. It was shown that phys. adsorption was the main force of drug-SiO2 surface interactions.