Everything about ABTS

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ABTSA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: ABTS/TAC Methodology: Main Milestones and Recent ApplicationsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: RepertorienThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Antioxidant activity applying an improved ABTS radical cation decolorization assayCited 22,200 times
5. Go sideways: Oxygen radical absorbance capacityA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: AntioxidantA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Antioxidant activity applying an improved ABTS radical cation decolorization assay

  Roberta Re, Nicoletta Pellegrini, Anna Proteggente · 1999 · Free Radical Biology and Medicine · 22,200 citations

• Comparison of ABTS, DPPH, FRAP, and ORAC assays for estimating antioxidant activity from guava fruit extracts

  Kriengsak Thaipong, Unaroj Boonprakob, Kevin Crosby · 2006 · Journal of Food Composition and Analysis · 2,936 citations

• A novel automated direct measurement method for total antioxidant capacity using a new generation, more stable ABTS radical cation

  Ozcan Erel · 2004 · Clinical Biochemistry · 2,505 citations

• Comparison of ABTS/DPPH assays to measure antioxidant capacity in popular antioxidant-rich US foods

  Anna Floegel, Dae-Ok Kim, Sang-Jin Chung · 2011 · Journal of Food Composition and Analysis · 1,603 citations

• Comparative Study of Antioxidant Properties and Total Phenolic Content of 30 Plant Extracts of Industrial Interest Using DPPH, ABTS, FRAP, SOD, and ORAC Assays

  Stéphanie Dudonné, Xavier Vitrac, Philippe Coutière · 2009 · Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry · 1,565 citations

• Statistical evaluation of DPPH, ABTS, FRAP, and Folin-Ciocalteu assays to assess the antioxidant capacity of lignins

  Jessica Rumpf, René Burger, Margit Schulze · 2023 · International Journal of Biological Macromolecules · 844 citations

• Modified 2,2-Azino-bis-3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic Acid (ABTS) Method to Measure Antioxidant Capacity of Selected Small Fruits and Comparison to Ferric Reducing Antioxidant Power (FRAP) and 2,2‘-Diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) Methods

  Mustafa Ozgen, R. Neil Reese, Artemio Z. Tulio · 2006 · Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry · 780 citations

• Factors Influencing the Antioxidant Activity Determined by the ABTS•+Radical Cation Assay

  Nicholas J. Miller, Catherine A. Rice-Evans · 1997 · Free Radical Research · 587 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• ABTS/TAC Methodology: Main Milestones and Recent Applications

  Antonio Cano, Ana B. Maestre, Josefa Hernández-Ruiz · 2023 · Processes · 136 citations

• Evaluation of pure antioxidative capacity of antioxidants: ESR spectroscopy of stable radicals by DPPH and ABTS assays with singular value decomposition

  Miwa Takatsuka, Satoru Goto, Kenshiro Kobayashi · 2022 · Food Bioscience · 88 citations

• A Modification of the ABTS• Decolorization Method and an Insight into Its Mechanism

  Kacper Kut, Bogumił Cieniek, Ireneusz Stefaniuk · 2022 · Processes · 72 citations

• Evaluation of Antioxidant Capacity (ABTS and CUPRAC) and Total Phenolic Content (Folin-Ciocalteu) Assays of Selected Fruit, Vegetables, and Spices

  Jenson George, David Edwards, Sharon Pun · 2022 · International Journal of Food Science · 61 citations

• Antioxidant activity of sinapic acid anilides: DPPH, ABTS, FRAP, electrochemical and theoretical analysis

  Viviana Donoso-Bustamante, Edison Osorio, María Fernanda Arias-Santé · 2025 · LWT · 57 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕RepertorienHauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart · 1980
• 📕Findbuch des Bestandes Abt. 22Jörg Rathjen · 2012
• Zwei Legenden aus dem Dritten ReichHans-Heinrich Wilhelm, L. de Jong · 1974
• 📕The ABT railway on Tasmania's west coastLou Rae · 1988
• 📕Une conversion de protestants par la sainte Eucharistie · 1911
• 📕Der falsche AbtFrank Goyke · 2004
• German military intelligence, 1939-1945United States. War Department. General Staff · 1984
• Der DienstReinhard Gehlen · 1971

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