Research Article

DFT Studies of Caffeic Acid Antioxidant: Molecular Orbitals and Composite Reactivity Maps Correlation with Photophysical Characteristics and Photochemical Stability

Table 2

Experimentally determined and theoretically calculated p values of CA.

This workLiterature valuesTheoretical value

4.5 ± 0.13.6–4.494.05
8.6 ± 0.28.6–9.3 6.27
10.3 ± 0.110.3–12.7 10.23

See [12].
Obtained from the quantum chemically calculated Gibbs free energies (Section 3.2.2).