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In this study, three of the most common TAC determination methods, namely cupric ion reducing antioxidant capacity (CUPRAC), 2,2\u2032-azinobis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) diammonium salt\/trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity (ABTS\/TEAC), and ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP), were tested for the assay of phenolics in the presence of selected thiol and protein compounds. Although the FRAP method is almost non-responsive to thiol compounds individually, surprising overoxidations with large positive deviations from additivity were observed when using this method for (phenols + thiols) mixtures. Among the tested TAC methods, CUPRAC gave the most additive results for all studied (phenol + thiol) and (phenol + protein) mixtures with minimal relative error. As ABTS\/TEAC and FRAP methods gave small and large deviations, respectively, from additivity of absorbances arising from these components in mixtures, mercury(II) compounds were added to stabilize the thiol components in the form of Hg(II)-thiol complexes so as to enable selective spectrophotometric determination of phenolic components. This error compensation was most efficient for the FRAP method in testing (thiols + phenols) mixtures.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms17081325","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,8,12]],"date-time":"2016-08-12T10:05:06Z","timestamp":1470996306000},"page":"1325","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["Spectrophotometric Determination of Phenolic Antioxidants in the Presence of Thiols and Proteins"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Asl\u0131","family":"Avan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Istanbul University, 34320 Istanbul, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sema","family":"Demirci \u00c7eki\u00e7","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Istanbul University, 34320 Istanbul, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Seda","family":"Uzunboy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Istanbul University, 34320 Istanbul, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Re\u015fat","family":"Apak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Istanbul University, 34320 Istanbul, Turkey"},{"name":"Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA) Piyade St. No. 27, 06690 \u00c7ankaya Ankara, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,8,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6837","DOI":"10.1021\/jf2013875","article-title":"Antioxidants in foods: State of the science important to the food industry","volume":"59","author":"Finley","year":"2011","journal-title":"J. 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