Direct Spectrophotometric Determination of Lead (II) in Industrial Samples using 1, 3-Benzenediamine, N, N'-bis(2-furanylmethylene) in Presence of Surfactant

Abstract

Schiff's base are one of the excellent chelating agents that used for the spectrophotometric determination of metal ions. It was observed that 1, 3-Benzenediamine, N,N'-bis(2-furanylmethylene) (BDFM) formed a brown colored complex with lead (II) at 620 nm. Lead (II) was chelated with the Schiff's base (BDFM) in acidic medium at pH = 3.5 using acetate buffer in presence of sodium laureth sulfate (SLS) as a surfactant. The effect of time, temperature and foreign ions were studied. The stoichiometric composition of the formed complex was found to be 1:2 (metal: ligand) by Job's method of continuous variation. Beer's law was obeyed in the range of 10-110 µg mL-1 with molar absorptivity 10.16×10 3 L mol-1 cm-1. The proposed method was applied for the determination of lead in gasoline, solders, gutters and wastewater.