“…Modern spectrophotometry is most commonly used for analysis of molybdenum, especially in developing countries. In the literature, reagents for spectrophotometric determination of molybdenum have 3,3 0 ,5,5 0 -tetramethylbezidine (Di and Tu, 2001), bromopyrogallol red (Hoshi et al, 1997), alizarin Red S (Alkan et al, 2003), phenylfluorone (Nakatsuka et al, 1995), thiocyanate (de Andrade et al, 1998;Tunceli and Turker, 2004), 1,2-dihydroxybenzene-3,5-disulfate (Lis and But, 2000) and thiazolylazo compounds (Amin, 1999). Although each chromogenic system has its advantages and disadvantages with respect to sensitivity, selectivity, water solubility and rapidity due to different reagents, most of them require a previous separation or pre-concentration procedure to increase the sensitivity or selectivity.…”