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TALANTA
Volume 75, Issue 4, Pages 1098-1103Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2008.01.007
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antioxidant capacity; cyclic voltammetry; flavonoids; superoxide radical
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This article lays out a new method to measure the antioxidant capacity of some flavonoids. The methodology developed is based on the kinetics of the reaction of the antioxidant substrate with the superoxide radical (O-2(center dot-)). A cyclic voltammetric technique was used to generate O-2(center dot-) by reduction of molecular oxygen in aprotic media. In the same experiment the consumption of the radical was directly measured by the anodic current decay of the superoxide radical oxidation in the presence of increasing concentrations of antioxidant substrate. The method was statistically validated on flavonoid monomers and on the standard antioxidants: trolox, ascorbic acid and phloroglucinol. The linear correlations between the anodic current Of O-2(center dot-) and the substrate concentration allowed the determination of antioxidant index values expressed by the substrate concentration needed to consume 30% (AI(30)) and 50% (AI(50)) Of O-2(center dot-) in given conditions of oxygen concentration and scanning rate. The fidelity of the method was examined intraday and interlaboratories. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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