Using spectrophotometric methods and pH-metric measurements, it was found that the uranyl ion and phenylephrine form a 1:2 complex in the pH region 2.50-4.25 with two absorption maxima at 314.2 nm and 340.6 nm. The thermodynamic stability constant at I = 0 and T = 298 K (room temperature) of the UO 2 (II)-phenylephrine complex, UO 2 (C 9 H 12 O 2 N) 2 , is log 0 2 β = 14.0 and G ∆ 2 = -79.6 kJ mol -1 . A linear dependence of the absorbance at 340.6 nm on the concentration of phenylephrine was obtained in the range from 0.0025 mol dm -3 to 0.0245 mol dm -3 using a solution of 0.025 mol dm -3 UO 2 (NO 3 ) 2 at pH = 3.90 and I = 0.075 mol dm -3 . The measurement error was 2.1 %.