Extractive spectrophotometric determination of copper(II) in water and alloy samples with 3-methoxy-4-hydroxy benzaldehyde-4-bromophenyl hydrazone (3,4-MHBBPH)

A facile, sensitive and selective extractive spectrophotometric method was de- veloped for the determination of copper(II) in various water and alloy samples using a newly synthesized reagent, 3-methoxy-4-hydroxy benzaldehyde 4-bromophenyl hydra- zone (3,4-MHBBPH). Copper(II) forms a orange colored complex with (3,4-MHBBPH) in acetate buffer medium (pH 4) which increases the sensitivity and the complex was ex- tracted into chloroform. Under optimum conditions, the maximum absorption of the chloroform extract was measured at 462 nm. The Beer law was obeyed in the range of 0.20 to 4.0 gm l -1 of copper. The molar absorptivity and the Sandell's sensitivity of the complex were 2.0520 10 4 mol -1 cm -1 and 0.2540 gc m -2 , respectively. The detection limit was found to be 0.0270 gm L -1 . A detailed study of various interfering ions made the method more sensitive. The method was successfully applied for the determination of Cu(II) in water and alloy samples. The performance of the present method was evalu- ated in terms of Student 't' test and Variance ratio 'f ' test, which indicate the significance of the present method over reported methods.