“…Annually, over 5 million pounds of spent Reformer Catalysts are treated for the recovery of contained platinum and rhenium. 6 The use of thiohydrazides such as o-hydroxythiobenzhydrazide, 7 thiobenzhydrazide, 8 α-naphthalenethiocarboxhydrazide, 2-pyrrolthiocarboxhydrazide, furanthiocarboxhydrazide, thiophenethiocarboxhydrazide, 9 dibenzylidenethiocarbohydrazide, 10 and 2-furancarbothioic acid hydrazide 11 in the spectrophotometric determination of rhenium and platinum group metals has been described in a number of papers. Other reagents such as dithizone, 12 anisaldehyde-4-phenyl-3-thiosemicarbazone, 13 dithizone-polyurathane, 14 4-phenylthiosemicarbazide, 15 3-(2′-thiazolylazo)-2,6-diaminopyridine, 16 N-(m-methylphenyl)-N′-(sodium p-aminobenzenesulfonate)-thiourea, 17 piperonal thiosemicarbazone, 18 and leuco xylene cyanol FF, 19 have been reported for spectrophotometric determination of platinum after liquid-liquid extraction.…”