Spectrophotometric Determination of Nickel in Steel with Di-2-pyridylmethanone 2-Thiophenecarboxylic Hydrazone

Di-2-pyridylmethanon 2-thiophenecarboxylie hydrazone(DPMTCH) was synthesized and used as a chromogenic reagent in the spectrophotometric determination of nickel in steel. The proton disc spectrophotometrically, were $pK_{a1}= 2.66$ and $pK_{a2}= 10.98$ ${\mu}=0.5(NaCl)$. Nickel(II) reacts with DPMTCH to form a 1:2 metal-2-ligand ratio complex, the xylene solution of which has an absorption maximum at 417 nm. Beer's law is obeyed over the range $0-1.17\;mg\;ml^{-1}$ of nickel(II). The molar absorptivity of the nickel(II) complex is $4.17{\times}10^4l\;mol^{-1}\;cm^{-1}$. The precision of the method was estimated for 4.7 mg of nickel(II), the coefficient of variation for 15 replicate determinations being 0.34%.