The determination of Fe(II) is of considerable interest for environmental studies. Since different metal speciation has different physical and chemical behavior, in order to get full and precise information of the environmental behaviors of the iron, the iron speciation analysis including Fe(II) determination is inevitable. The concentration of Fe(II) in the environment is usually too low to be determined by common spectrophotometric method, so it is necessary to develop a more sensitive and selective method.The high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) of metal chelate compounds has been one of the most powerful methodologies for trace metal analysis and thus has received increasing attention. [1][2][3][4][5] Many azo dyes, such as reagents of pyridylazo, 6,7 thiazolylazo, 8 benzothiazolylazo, 9 phenanthroline, 10 and azobenzene 11 have been used as the precolumn derivatizing reagents for the simultaneous determination of metal ions by HPLC. The suitable precolumn derivatizing reagents containing aroylhydrazones were systematically studied by Yotsuyanagi and his coworkers. They successfully applied the developed HPLC methods to the determination of Ni(II) and V(V) in fly ash and airborne particulate samples. 12,13 Ferroin-type chromogen is distinguished structurally by the bidentate chelate functional group =N-C=C-N=, such as 3-(2-pyridyl)-5,6-diphenyl-1,2,4-triazine (PDT), which has the same chelating system as 1,10-phenanthroline, but is more sensitive for the determination of Fe(II).Schilt and coworkers investigated the colorimetric properties of the Fe(II) chelate of this chromogens by spectrophotometric methods. [14][15][16] Since this initial investigation, many studies have utilized PDT chelation of Fe(II) with subsequent spectrophotometric analyses. [17][18][19] PDT has been extensively used for the spectrophotometric determination of Fe(II), and some HPLC methods to determine metals including Fe(II) have been reported elsewhere. [20][21][22][23] For example, Brown and his coworkers applied ferrozine, the disulfonated PDT, to the HPLC method for the determination of ultratrace amounts of Fe(II) in environmental samples. 20 To our knowledge, the application of PDT in the HPLC method as the precolumn derivatizing reagent to the determination of Fe(II) has not been reported yet.In previous spectrophotometric methods [14][15][16][17][18][19] in which PDT was used as a derivatizing reagent, the use of excess PDT is often needed to ensure that the Fe(II) is chelated completely. However, one is unlikely to accomplish the separation and determination of PDT that is not chelated in the unknown real sample matrix, in that the excess PDT can cause considerable error in a sample at very low Fe(II) concentrations, especially when the sample (e.g., pore water in sediments) contains high concentrations of organic matter, 24,25 because the colored organic matter and the excess PDT in the sample also have 3-(2-Pyridyl)-5,6-diphenyl-1,2,4-triazine (PDT) was used for the first time as a precolumn derivatizing reagent ...