The thermal behaviour of some benzodiazepine derivatives have been studied
by differential thermal analysis (DTA) and thermogravimetry (TG). It was fo
unded that pyrolytic decomposition accompanied melting of the compounds, so
me of which were hydrates. Dehydration is followed by total pyrolytic decom
position in two stage. GC-MS was used to identify the products of the pyrol
ytic decomposition. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.