Procedures for the determination of individual antioxidants of different nature in biological materials with the use of electrochemical, chromatographic, spectrochemical, and other methods were considered. The main performance characteristics of these procedures are presented. JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY Vol. 60 No. 7 2005 ANTIOXIDANTS AS ANALYTES IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 601rings, the ortho and para positions of hydroxyl groups, their tert -butyl screening, the formation of semiquinone forms, thiol-containing compounds, the chelation of variable-valence metals, receptor interactions with the cell membrane, etc.