Aspectrophotometric study of the Palladium (II) complex of a new reagent phenyl-2-picolylketone-2-pyridylhydrazone, PPKPyH, is presented. Palladium reacts with PPKPyH in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) to form a red complex. The palladium complex has a maximal absorbance at pH 5.9 (containing 30% ethanol) and at 420 nm. Beer's law is obeyed up to 40 μg pd(11). The molar absorptivity is 1.9×104liters mol−1cm−1at 420 nm. The method offer advantages of simplicity, requires no extraction and selective, where 3.00 mg Pt(IV) and 0.1 mg Au(III) ions do not interfere.