Abstract
A new method for evaluating the antioxidant activity of organic compounds based on quantum chemical calculations of their electronic structure using the DFT B3LYP/6-31G (d, p) method has been proposed. The geometric parameters of antioxidant molecules were optimized and the reactivity indices were determined from the energy values of the highest occupied and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals: absolute electronegativity; electronic chemical potential; absolute "chemical hardness". The found indicators allow us to quantify the antioxidant activity by building their dependence on the energy of the lower vacant molecular orbitals. The correlation of the obtained parameters with the standard, such as trolox, allows determining the relative antioxidant activity of the test substance.
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