Table of Contents

October 1997
Volume 74, Issue 10
Pages 1145-1247
About the Cover:

The tree on the cover celebrates the colorful chemistry displayed by nature in autumn. For more details, see the article Chem-Is-Tree by Dana M. Barry, page 1175, and the JCE Classroom Activity #2, page 1176A.

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p 1145
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1145
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Using a Living Textbook Effectively

John W. Moore
p 1149
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1149
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News

p 1150
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (News and Announcements)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1150
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Especially for High School Teachers

J. Emory Howell
p 1151
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1151
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Discovery of the Elements

Stephen J. Hawkes
p 1152
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1152.1
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Discovery of the Elements

Claudio Gutierrez
p 1152
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1152.2
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Waste Treatment in the Undergraduate Laboratory: Let the Students Do It!

Volker Wiskamp
p 1152
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1152.3
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Waste Treatment in the Undergraduate Laboratory: Let the Students Do It! (the authors reply)

John J. Nash , Susan C. Nurrenbern and Jeanne A. R. Meyer
p 1152
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1152.4
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Group Theory in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

Brahama D. Sharma
p 1152
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1152.5
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Announcements

JCE staff
p 1153
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (News and Announcements)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1153
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An Essential Recognition: Two Valid Introductory Chemistries

Gordon M. Barrow
p 1154
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Commentary)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1154
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2YC3: Is Articulation from Two-to Four-year Colleges an Allowed or a Forbidden Transition?

Tamar Y. Susskind
p 1156
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1156

An International Collaborative Undergraduate Research Program between Ithaca College and Leiden University

Andrew S. Koch , Heinz F. Koch and Gerrit Lodder
p 1158
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1158

Ionization Constants

Morris Bader
p 1160
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1160.1
History, Education, and Documentation
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Ionization Constants (the authors reply)

S. Roo , L. Vermeire and C. Görller-Walrand
p 1160
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1160.2
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MathBrowser: Web-Enabled Mathematical Software with Application to the Chemistry Curriculum, v 1.0 (MathSoft)

Jack G. Goldsmith
p 1164
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1164
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Teaching Secondary School Science: Strategies for Developing Scientific Literacy, 6th ed. (Trowbridge, Leslie W.; Bybee, Rodger W.)

Harold H. Harris
p 1167
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1167.1
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Constructing Science in Middle and Secondary School Classroom (Baker, Dale R.; Piburn, Michael D.)

Harold H. Harris
p 1167
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1167.2
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The Chemistry Classroom: Formulas for Successful Teaching (Herron, J. Dudley)

Harold H. Harris
p 1167
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1167.3
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Beginning Organic Chemistry 1 and Beginning Organic Chemistry 2 (Patrick, Graham L.)

Richard Pagni
p 1169
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1169
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Modern Techniques in Eletroanalysis (ed. Vanysek, Peter)

Mark M. Richter
p 1170
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1170
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Chemistry Everyday for Everyone

Chem-Is-Tree

Dana M. Barry
p 1175
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1175

Anthocyanins: A Colorful Class of Compounds

Staff
p 1176A
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1176A

Engaging Students in the Action of Chemistry: An Effective, Fun, and Inexpensive Outreach Program

Jane M. Van Doren , Lisa P. Nestor and W. Berk Knighton
p 1178
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1178
History, Education, and Documentation

In the Classroom

Reminder Sheets for Chemistry Examinations

Charles L. Perrin
p 1180
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1180
History, Education, and Documentation

Project Longhorn: A Pilot Project in the Use of Batch Computing in High School Chemistry Teaching

Sally Busboom
p 1181
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1181

Cheating Probabilities on Multiple Choice Tests

Gaspard T. Rizzuto and Fred Walters
p 1185
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1185
History, Education, and Documentation

Introducing Third-Year Chemistry Students to the Planning and Design of an Experimental Program

Jeffrey G. Dunn , David Norman Phillips and Wilhelm van Bronswijk
p 1186
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1186
History, Education, and Documentation

In the Laboratory

An Exercise To Illustrate the Importance of Sample Preparation in Chemical Analysis

Jeffrey G. Dunn , David Philips and Wilhelm van Bronswijk
p 1188
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1188
History, Education, and Documentation

The Floating Siphon - an Effective "Homemade" Device for High Dilution Experiments

Alexander Kolchinski
p 1190
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1190

Analysis of the Essential Nutrient Strontium in Marine Aquariums by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy: An Undergraduate Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Exercise

Laurent D. Gilles de Pelichy , Carl Adam and Eugene T. Smith
p 1192
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1192
History, Education, and Documentation

pH Dependent Redox Couple: An Illustration of the Nernst Equation

Mary M. Walczak , Deborah A. Dryer , Dana D. Jacobson , Michele G. Foss and Nolan T. Flynn
p 1195
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1195

Potentiometric Acid-Base Titrations with Activated Graphite Electrodes

P. Riyazuddin and D. Devika
p 1198
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1198
History, Education, and Documentation

Celsius to Fahrenheit and Vice Versa - Quick, Exact, and Neat

S. C. Dutta Roy
p 1199
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1199
History, Education, and Documentation

UV-Visible Spectrooelectrochemistry of the Reduction Products of Anthraquinone in Dimethylformamide Solutions: An Advanced Undergraduate Experiment

Ali Babaei , Paul A. Connor , A. James McQuillan and Siva Umapathy
p 1200
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1200
History, Education, and Documentation

Eliminating Mercury Thermometers from the Lab

T. Stephen Everett
p 1204
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1204
History, Education, and Documentation

Preparation of Semiconducting Materials in the Laboratory, Part 2: Microscale Chemical Bath Deposition of Materials with Band Gap Energies in the UV, VIS, and IR

Jorge G. Ibanez , Flora Gomez , Ivonne Konik , Diana E. Lozano , Alejandra Mugica , Mono M. Singh , Zvi Szafran and Ronald M. Pike
p 1205
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1205
History, Education, and Documentation

Molecular Photophysics of Acridine Yellow Studied by Phosphorescence and Delayed Fluorescence: An Undergraduate Physical Chemistry Experiment

Julius C. Fister III , Joel M. Harris , Diana Rank and William Wacholtz
p 1208
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1208

IR Spectroscopy or Hooke's Law at the Molecular Level - A Joint Freshman Physics-Chemistry Experience

Jeffrey T. Burke
p 1213
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1213
History, Education, and Documentation

A Stopped-Flow Kinetics Experiment for Advanced Undergraduate Laboratories: Formation of Iron(III) Thiocyannate

Charles R. Clark
p 1214
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1214
History, Education, and Documentation

Kinetic versus Thermodynamic Control in the Dehydration of 2-Methylcyclopentanol: A Two-Part Laboratory Experiment Utilizing the Gignard Reaction and GC-MS

Thomas Poon , Bradford P. Mundy , Jean McIntyre , Lesley Woods , Frank G. Favaloro Jr. and Christina A. Goudreau
p 1218
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1218
History, Education, and Documentation

Ozonolysis Experiments Using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry: An Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory Experiment

Charlene M. Rhoads , George R. Farquar and William F. Wood
p 1220
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1220
History, Education, and Documentation

Dry-Column Flash Chromatography

Alan J. Shusterman , Patrick G. McDougal and Arthur Glasfeld
p 1222
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1222
History, Education, and Documentation

Regioselective Hydrochlorination: An Experiment for the Undergraduate Laboratory

Philip Boudjouk , Beon-Kyu Kim and Byung-Hee Han
p 1223
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1223
History, Education, and Documentation

Microwave Assisted Wolff-Kishner Reduction Reaction

Eric Parquet and Qun Lin
p 1225
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1225
History, Education, and Documentation

Resolution of Racemic Phenylsuccinic Acid Using (-)-Proline as a Resolving Agent: An Introductory Organic Chemistry Experiment

Victor Cesare and Ralph Stephani
p 1226
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1226

Determination of Critical Micelle Concentration of Some Surfactants by Three Techniques

Ana Dominguez , Aurora Fernandez , Noemi Gonzalez , Emilia Iglesias and Luis Montenegro
p 1227
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1227
History, Education, and Documentation

Determination of Enthalpy of Vaporization Using a Microwave Oven

Alvin P. Kennedy Sr.
p 1231
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1231

Research: Science and Education

Evaluation of Learning Processes in an Organic Chemistry Course

Beatriz Maroto , C. Camusso and M. Cividini
p 1233
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1233
History, Education, and Documentation

Metal Complexes of EDTA: An Exercise in Data Interpretation

Philip C. H. Mitchell
p 1235
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1235
History, Education, and Documentation

Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources

Disadvantages of Double Reciprocal Plots

R. Bruce Martin
p 1238
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1238
History, Education, and Documentation

Simple and Inexpensive 8-Bit Analog to Digital Converter for the PCs Parallel Port

Orfeo Zerbinati
p 1241
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1241
History, Education, and Documentation

An Inexpensive Photon Counter Interface for the Personal Computer

Scott A. Riley and Allan M. Nishimura
p 1243
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1243
History, Education, and Documentation

A Window on the Solid State: Part I: Structures of Metals; Part II: Unit Cells of Metals; Part III: Strucutres of Ionic Solids; Part IV: Unit Cells of Ionic Solids (Abstract of Volume 5D, Number 2)

William R. Robinson and Joan F. Tejchma
p 1245
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1245
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Solid State Structures (Abstract of Volume 5D, Number 2)

Ludwig A. Mayer
p 1246
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1246
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p 1247
Publication Date (Web): October 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1247
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