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This investigation employs multistate complete active space second-order perturbation theory (MS-CASPT2), complemented by density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) methods, to examine the photoisomerization behavior of sinapic acid (SA) and methyl sinapate (MS) under ultraviolet (UV) irradiation, while systematically analyzing their antioxidant properties in the S1 state. The computational results, validated by two independent theoretical approaches, confirm that both SA and MS can undergo photoisomerization through conical intersection pathways, providing crucial insights into their non-radiative transition mechanisms. In the S0 state, cis-SA and cis-MS exhibit higher antioxidant activity, while in the S1 state, antioxidant performance is strongly solvent-dependent: trans-SA outperforms in ethyl acetate (Eac) and water, whereas cis-SA is more effective in methanol (MeOH). 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