H-Point Standard Addition Method for Simultaneous Determination of Palladium and Cobalt

Abstract

The H-point standard addition method (HPSAM) has been applied to simultaneous determination of palladium and cobalt at trace levels, using 1-(2-pyridylazo)-2-naphthol (PAN) as a chromogenic reagent. Palladium and cobalt at neutral pH levels form green colored neutral complexes with PAN which are soluble in aqueous sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) micellar media and can be monitored spectrophotometrically. Simultaneous determination of cobalt and palladium by HPSAM were performed spectrophotometrically and under optimum conditions. Absorbances at the two pairs of wavelengths, 597 and 650 nm or 566 and 612 nm, were monitored while adding standard solutions of cobalt or palladium, respectively. The method is able to accurately determine a cobalt/palladium ratio of between 5:1 and 1:30 (wt/wt). The accuracy and reproducibility of the determination method for various known amounts of cobalt and palladium in their binary mixtures were evaluated. The effects of diverse ions on the determination of cobalt and palladium to investigate the selectivity of the method were also studied. The recommended procedure was applied to real water samples and synthetic sample solutions.