Table of Contents

August 1996
Volume 73, Issue 8
Pages 695-826
About the Cover:

This month's cover features an interesting demonstration of the plasma state, which is presented by Schreckenbach and Rabending on page 782.

For Selected:

General Interest

Cascade Sequences in Organic Synthesis: A Lesson from Nature?

Shelagh T. Dennison and David C. Harrowven
p 697
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p697
History, Education, and Documentation

The ECW Model

Glenn C. Vogel , Russell S. Drago
p 701
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p701
History, Education, and Documentation

Entropy and Waste Recovery: Between Thermodynamics and Economy

A. Ginebreda
p 708
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p708
History, Education, and Documentation

Entropy Diagrams

Norman C. Craig
p 710
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p710
History, Education, and Documentation

On the Entropy Change of Surroundings of Finite and of Infinite Size: From Clausius to Gibbs

H. Frohlich
p 716
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p716
History, Education, and Documentation

Free Enthalpy, Lagrange Multipliers, and Thermal Equilibrium: A Possibly Novel Way to Derive the Law of Mass Action

Dieter H. Sutter
p 718
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p718
History, Education, and Documentation

The Well-Read Biochemist

Gale Rhodes
p 732
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p732
History, Education, and Documentation

Porous Silicon and the Search for a Silicon-Based LED

G. L. Richmond and Peter C. Sercel , Ron Swisher
p 738
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p738

Electronic Configuration Pattern Found in Pascal's Triangle

Robert L. Duncan
p 742
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p742
History, Education, and Documentation

Selection Rules For Processes Involving Photon-Molecule Interaction: A Symmetry-Conservation-Based Approach Bypassing Transition Matrix Elements

Mihir Chowdhury
p 743
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p743
History, Education, and Documentation

An Easily Constructed and Versatile Molecular Model

Sandra A. Hernandez , Oscar Quinzani and Nora M. Rodriguez
p 748
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p748
History, Education, and Documentation

A Systematic Method for Determining Molecular Term Symbols for Diatomic Molecules Using Uncoupled-States Orbital Diagrams

Mark L. Campbell
p 749
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p749
History, Education, and Documentation

Scientific Literature and Literacy: A Course of Practical Skills for Undergraduate Science Majors

Alfred B. Ordman
p 753
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p753
History, Education, and Documentation

The Neglected Element in Sophomore Organic Chemistry

Kelly L. Bieda and Suzzane T. Purrington
p 754
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p754
History, Education, and Documentation

Report on the WPI Conference: General Chemistry and Materials Science: The Interrelationships

Herbert Beall
p 756
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p756
History, Education, and Documentation

Narrowing the Gap between Concepts and Algorithms in Freshman Chemistry

Mary B. Nakhleh , Kirsten A. Lowrey and Richard C. Mitchell
p 758
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p758
History, Education, and Documentation

A Coordinated Chemistry Outreach Program for Thousands of High School Students

Amy Sue Waldman , Linda Schechinger and James S. Nowick
p 762
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p762

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: Some Surprising Aspects of the Equilibrium between Hemoglobin, Carbon Monoxide, and Oxygen

N. M. Senozan and J. A. Devore
p 767
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p767
History, Education, and Documentation

General Chemistry Laboratory—Scientific Inquiry: 157 New Experiments in One Semester

Suzanne L. Black
p 776
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p776
History, Education, and Documentation

Mother Earth Chemistry: A Laboratory Course for Nonmajors

J. L. Roberts , J. I. Selco and D. B. Wacks
p 779
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p779
History, Education, and Documentation

NMR Shielding and the Periodic Table

I. P. Gerothanassis and C. G. Kalodimos
p 801
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p801
History, Education, and Documentation

Features

A Valedictory

J. J. Lagowski
p 695
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p695
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In This Issue, Coda

p 696
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p696
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Monte Carlo Approach to Generating the Probability-Distribution Function of a Classical Harmonic Oscillator

Robert A. Craig , Stephen W. Bigger
p 724
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p724

Useful Spreadsheet for Updating Multistep Organic Synthesis

Pedro Ortega , Miguel Guzmán and Leonel Vera
p 726
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p726
History, Education, and Documentation

The Iodide-Catalyzed Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide: A Simple Computer-Interfaced Kinetics Experiment for General Chemistry

John C. Hansen
p 728
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p728
History, Education, and Documentation

Interactive Computer Visualization in the Introductory Chemistry Curriculum

Victoria M. Bragin
p 747
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p747
History, Education, and Documentation

Demonstration of the plasma state

Joachim P. Schreckenbach and Klaus Rabending
p 782
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p782
History, Education, and Documentation

A multistep equilibria-redox-complexation demonstration to illustrate Le Châtelier's principle

Tomás G. Berger , Edward K. Mellon
p 783
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p783.1
History, Education, and Documentation

Iodine clock reaction

Richard S. Mitchell
p 783
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p783.2
History, Education, and Documentation

Better Ways to Estimate Blood-Alchohol Concentration

Daniel Stewart
p 823
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p823
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Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry: Part III: Applications in Inorganic Chemistry and Synthetic Polymer Chemistry

Cornelius E. C. A. Hop and Ray Bakhtiar
p A162
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073pA162
History, Education, and Documentation

Microscale Synthesis of 2,3:5,6-Di-O-isopropylidene-alpha-D-mannofuranose ("Diacetone Mannose")

Jeffrey A. Charonnat and Cathleen S. Steinberg
p A170
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073pA170
History, Education, and Documentation

Following Microscale Organic Reactions Using FT-IR

Janice Ems-Wilson
p A171
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073pA171
History, Education, and Documentation

Small Scale Electrolytic Cells

Guy E. Anderson
p A172
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073pA172

A Simpler Small Scale Method for the Identification of Plastics

Guy E. Anderson
p A173
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073pA173

Introduction to Chemistry, Seventh Edition (Dickson, T.R.)

Dean F. Martin
p A174
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073pA174.1
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Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds ( Eliel, Ernest L.; Wilen, Samuel H.)

Ronald D. McKelvey
p A174
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073pA174.2
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Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry (Canham, Geoff Rayner)

Daniel T. Haworth
p A174
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073pA174.3
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Secondary School Chemistry

A Simulated Growth Hormone Analysis

Mary Harris
p 735
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p735
History, Education, and Documentation

Teaching Dilutions

Lloyd J. McElroy
p 765
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p765
History, Education, and Documentation

Using Physics Principles in the Teaching of Chemistry

Warren Gulden
p 771
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p771

New Literature Suggests that We Don't Have To Teach Everything in the Textbook

Susan P. Gannaway , Ann Stucke
p 773
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p773

Laboratory Experiments

Simple NMR Imaging

Per-Ola Quist
p 751
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p751

Low-Cost Lateral Displacement Refractometer for Liquids: A Take-Home Student Experiment

V. Anantha Narayanan and Radha Narayanan
p 784
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p784
History, Education, and Documentation

How to Offer the Optimal Demonstration of the Electrolysis of Water

Rei E. Zhou
p 786
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p786
History, Education, and Documentation

A Simple and Low-Cost Air Sampler

Sashi Saxena Ratna and Pramrod Upadhyay
p 787
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p787

Determination of the Thermodynamic Solubility Product of PbI2 Assuming Nonideal Behavior: An Analytical Chemistry Experiment

David B. Green , Gregory Rechtsteiner and Amy Honodel
p 789
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p789
History, Education, and Documentation

Determination of the Dissociation Constant for Monoprotic Acid by Simple pH Measurements

R. García-Doménech , J. V. de Julián-Ortiz , G. M. Antón-Fos and J. Galvez Alvarez
p 792
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p792
History, Education, and Documentation

Labeling Histidines in Cytochrome c: An Integrated Laboratory Project

Amy M. Bonser and Owen A. Moe
p 794
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p794
History, Education, and Documentation

Use of Blood-Glucose Test Strips for Introducing Enzyme Electrodes and Modern Biosensors

Joseph Wang and Carlo Macca
p 797
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p797
History, Education, and Documentation

Molecular Constants of Carbon Monoxide at v = 0, 1, 2, and 3: A Vibrational Spectroscopy Experiment in Physical Chemistry

Nairmen Mina-Camilde and Carlos Manzanares I. , Julio F. Caballero
p 804
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p804
History, Education, and Documentation

Understanding the Difference between Inner- and Outer-Sphere Mechanisms: An Electrochemical Experiment

Luz María Torres , Adrián F. Gil , Laura Galicia and Ignacio González
p 808
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p808
History, Education, and Documentation

The Comparative Performance of Batteries: The Lead-Acid and the Aluminum-Air Cells

Xavier LeRoux , Gerry A. Ottewill and Frank C. Walsh
p 811
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p811
History, Education, and Documentation

Making an Inexpensive Tesla Coil from a Car Coil

Michael R. Hall and Rubin Battino
p 817
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p817
History, Education, and Documentation

On-Line Surfactant Monitoring by Foam Generation

Barbara Smith and Ken I. Mullen , Everett E. Neal , Patrick D. Soran
p 819
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p819

Use of a 10-cm Pathlength Quartz Cell for the Separation of the Isotopes of HCl Vapor

Silvio C. Pattacini
p 822
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p822
History, Education, and Documentation

Notes

Chemical Enumeration with Mathematics

p 737
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Addition/Correction)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p737.1
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Convergent Synthesis of Betaine-30, a Solvatochromic Dye

p 737
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Addition/Correction)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p737.2
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Molecular Orbital (Hückel) Theory and Linus Pauling: A Historical Perspective

Brahama D. Sharma
p 746
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p746

An Improved Container for Solutions of Yellow Phosphorous

Stephen W. Wright
p 818
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p818

Articles

SIRS: Simulations and Interactive Resources, III

John S. Martin
p 722
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p722
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Better Ways to Estimate Blood-Alchohol Concentration (author's response)

Dominick A. Labianca
p 824
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p824.1
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Diffusion Confusion

Lawrence C. Davis
p 824
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p824.2
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Inorganic Nomenclature

Marten J. ten Hoor
p 825
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p825
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Inorganic Nomenclature (author's response)

Gerhard Lind
p 826
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p826.1
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Additional Kinetic Information

I.A. Leenson
p 826
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073p826.2
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The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey into the Land of the Chemical Elements (Atkins, P.W.)

George B. Kauffman
p A177
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073pA177.1
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Thinking About Matter: Studies in the History of Chemical Philosophy (Brooke, John Hedley)

George B. Kauffman
p A177
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073pA177.2
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Lettere a Stanislao Cannizzaro 1868-1872; Stanislao Cannizzaro: Scritti di Storia Politica e Chimica; Corrispondenza Varia (ED. Paoloni, Leonello)

George B. Kauffman
p A178
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073pA178.1
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Titles of Interest

p A178
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073pA178.2

Monographs

p A178
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073pA178.3

New Volumes in Continuing Series

p A179
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1996 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed073pA179
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