A novel sensitive, specific, and reversible optical sensor for the palladium(II) ion was created by impregnating an agarose membrane with 4-(2-amino-3-hydroxypyridine-4-ylazo)1,5-dimethyl-2-phenyl-1,2-dihydropyrazol-3-one (AHDDO). Spectrophoto-metric studies of complex formation between AHDDO base...