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In medicines APIs are most oftenly at solid form. Crystal forms are more stable than amorphic solid form. Crystals are hold together by intermolecular interactions. Strongest and most common intermolecular interaction in crystals is hydrogen bond. Crystallisation is affected by thermodynamics and kinetics. Same phenomena effect also dissolving of crystals. New APIs often have a poor water solubility which makes them difficult to use. Cocrystals are one way to improve physical characteristics of molecules and most of all solubility. In co-crystals two different solid molecules are crystalliced in a same crystall lattice. Itraconatzole is an API with a poor water solubility. Itraconatzole can form cocrystals with many bicarbocsylicacids. The smallest bicarbocsylicacid that had formed co-crystal with itraconazole is malonic acid. The purpose of the experiment was to grow itraconazole malonic acid co-crystal, which is big enough for single crystall x-ray diffraktion. With SXRD it is possible to find out how molecyles are placed in a crystall lattice. For SXRD the single crystal is not allowed to have a single mistake in its lattice. Itraconazole and malonic acid were dissolved to 1,2-dichloroethane-2-butanone and tetrahydrofurane-chloroform for growing up a single crystal. Crystallisation methods used were evaporation of solvent, adding antisolvent and cooling down of solution. Formed crystalls were analysed with DSC, raman, XRD and TGA. It was succeeded to crystallise itraconazole malonic acid co-crystals with used methods. The formed crystalls were needlelike and packed in small drifts. Any crystall big enough for SXRD was not succeeded to grow up with the methods used. Growing up a bigger co-crystal needs the use of new methods or optimation of the ones used in this experiment.