A New Chelating Reagent: Its Synthesis/Characterization and Application for the Determination of Cd(II) and Ni(II) in...

A new and simple dispersive liquid-liquid simultaneous microextraction procedure was developed for the rapid separation and simultaneous extraction/preconcentration of Cd(II) and Ni(II) at ultratrace amounts. Microextraction of the analytes was carried out in the presence of 2-methyl-5-[(Z)-pyridin-4-yldiazenyl]quinolin-8-ol as the chelating reagent. Chloroform and ethanol were used as the extraction and dispersive solvents. Various parameters that influence the microextraction procedure's efficiency-such as pH, centrifugation rate and time, reagent concentration, and sampling volume on the recovery of analytes-were examined. The calibration curves were linear in the range of 0.01-1.25 and 0.075-5 mg/L with LODs of 0.25 and 0.84 μg/L, and with a preconcentration factor of 94, for Cd(II) and Ni(II), respectively. Precision was >1.0%. The accuracy of the method was confirmed by analyzing the Certified Standard Reference Material (CWW-TMD: Certified wastewater-Trace metals, wastewater). The results show that the dispersive liquid-liquid simultaneous microextraction pretreatment is a sensitive, rapid, simple, green, and safe method for the separation/preconcentration of cadmium and nickel.