The invention provides antioxidant salen-metal complexes, compositions of such
antioxidant salen-metal complexes having superoxide activity, catalase activity,
and/or peroxidase activity, compositions of salen-metal complexes in a form suitable
for pharmaceutical administration to treat or prevent a disease associated with
cell or tissue damage produced by free radicals such as superoxide, and cosmetic
and free radical quenching formulations of salen metal compounds.