Antioxidant potential of eight phenolic acids using high-performance density functional theory

Phenolic acids are one of the major fractions identified in the extract of several vegetable seed oils which present interesting antioxidant properties. A density functional theory (DFT) study on the antioxidant potential of eight phenolic acids including gallic, vanillic, isovanillic, ferulic, caffeic, β-coumaric, cinnamic, and chlorogenic acids, is presented in this paper.