
Originally Posted by
Family_guy
So upon some further research the main difference between “pharmaceutical salts” (sulfate, hydrochloride, etc) and esters is that salts are bonded ionically while esters are bonded covalently. Which means that esters are bonded much “stronger” and they become technically a prodrug to the parent compound since it’s not active biologically until the Ester is cleaved. Where as salts are not prodrugs usually. At least that’s what I was just reading. So anyways maybe my first point isn’t correct scientifically but I know there’s still a ton of anecdotal evidence saying there is a different between esters.