Development of Extractive Spectrophotometric Determination of Rhodium (III) using Schiffs Base as An Analytical Reagent

Abstract

Rh (III) was determined by simple, sensitive & feasible spectrophotometric method by using analytical reagent N - (o - methoxy benzaldehyde) 2-aminophenol (NOMBAP) . Elemental analysis was used to characterize synthesized Schiff’s base NOMBAP. Rh (III) is extracted quantitatively (99.66%) by NOMBAP into carbon tetra chloride from an aqueous solution having pH range 5.1 – 5.9. An intense peak at 480 nm (λ max) was observed in the extract of n-amyl alcohol. Beer’s law is obeyed over the concentration range 1.0 – 10.0 µg/ml for Rh (III). The molar absorptivity and Sandel’s sensitivity for Rh - NOMBAP system is 8248.23 dm3 mole-1cm-1and 0.08332 μgcm-2 respectively. Mole Ratio & Job’s Continuous Variation and Method show that the extracted species has composition 1:3 (Rh-NOMBAP). Study has been done for interference by various ions. For determination of Rh (III) in alloy the proposed method has been used.