Table of Contents

December 1997
Volume 74, Issue 12
Pages 1377-1550

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The cover shows the nitrogen cycle and highlights the fixation of nitrogen by lightning - a major process in the atmospheric environment. For a collection of articles on chemistry and the environment, see pages 1409-1462.

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p 1377
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1377
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Making the Future Ours

John W. Moore
p 1381
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1381
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News from Journal House

p 1382
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (News and Announcements)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1382
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Especially for High School Teachers

J. Emory Howell
p 1383
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1383
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Assessment of Knowledge

Francisco J. Arnaiz
p 1384
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1384.1
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Redox Rap

Dean Ellerton
p 1384
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1384.2
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Corrections (1)

Lynn Thompson , Hans Veening and Timothy G. Strein
p 1384
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Addition/Correction)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1384.3
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Corrections (2)

Martin B. Hocking
p 1384
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Addition/Correction)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1384.4
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Announcements

JCE staff
p 1386
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (News and Announcements)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1386
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Chemistry in the News: 1997 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Medicine

p 1388
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1388

What Is Undergraduate Research?

Judith A. Halstead
p 1390
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1390

Opening College Doors to All Americans: Excerpts from Remarks at San Jacinto Community College

Bill Clinton
p 1392
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1392

News from Online

Carolyn Sweeney Judd
p 1394
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1394

Report from ACS Division of Chemical Education

p 1395
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1395

Egg in the Bottle Revisited

Viktor Obendrauf
p 1396
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1396.1
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Egg in the Bottle Revisited - the author replies

Doris Kolb
p 1396
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1396.2
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About Letters to the Editor

p 1396
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1396.3
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Inorganic Chemistry: An Industrial and Environmental Perspective (Swaddle, T. W.)

Jay H. Worrell
p 1399
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1399
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The Chemistry Maths Book (Steiner, Erich)

C. Michael McCallum
p 1400
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1400.1
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Organic Chemistry: A Comprehensive Degree Text and Source Book, 22nd ed. (Beyer, Hans; Walter, Wolfgang)

John C. Cochran
p 1400
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1400.2
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Eilhard Mitscherlich: Prince of Prussian Chemistry (Scuhtt, Hans-Werner)

Istvan Hargittai
p 1402
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1402.1
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Risky Business (Dworkin, Mark; Young, Melissa)

Armen S. Casparian
p 1402
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1402.2
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Book Notes: Color Atlas of Biochemistry (Koolman, Jan; Rohm, Klaus-Heinrich)

Edward J. Walsh
p 1402
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1402.3
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Book Notes: Heterocyclic Chemistry, 3rd ed. (Gilchrist, Thomas L.)

Edward J. Walsh
p 1404
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1404
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Chemistry Everyday for Everyone

Integrating High School Chemistry with Environmental Studies and Research

Jack Randall
p 1409
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1409

Our Microscopic Universe: An Interdisciplinary Course Examining Natural Phenomena Using Geology, Physics, and Chemistry

Susan A. Jansen-Varnum
p 1411
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1411

A Chemist's Gift Guide

Ralph Shaw
p 1412
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1412

In the Classroom

A Discussion of Water Pollution in the United States and Mexico; with High School Laboratory Activities for the Analysis of Lead, Atrazine, and Nitrate

Paul B. Kelter , Julie Grundman , David S. Hage , James D. Carr and Carlos Mauricio Castro-Acuña
p 1413
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1413

Complexometric Titrations: Competition of Complexing Agents in the Determination of Water Hardness with EDTA

M. Cecilia Yappert and Donald B. DuPre
p 1422
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1422

Acid rain demonstration: The formation of nitrogen oxides as a by-product of high-temperature flames in connection with internal combustion engines

Jerry A. Driscoll
p 1424
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1424

Consultancy in the Classroom: Using Industrial Chemistry in a Teaching Exercise

Geraldine A. Ottewill and Frank C. Walsh
p 1426
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1426

Interdisciplinary Project-Based Learning through an Environmental Water Quality Study

Lorie Juhl , Kaye Yearsley and Andrew J. Silva
p 1431
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1431

Chemical Education for Toxic Substance Control

Paul Tomboulian and Katie Parrot
p 1434
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1434

In the Laboratory

Environmental Projects in the Quantitative Analysis Lab

Jeffrey D. Weidenhamer
p 1437
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1437

Assessing the Fate of Organic Contaminants in Aquatic Environments: Mechanism and Kinetics of Hydrolysis of a Carboxylic Ester

Jorg Klausen , Markus A. Meier and Rene P. Schwarzenbach
p 1440
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1440

Voltammetric Determination of Ni and Co in Water Samples

Jose Alberto Herrera-Melian , Jose Miguel Dona-Rodriguez , Joaquin Hernandez-Brito and Jesus Perez Pena
p 1444
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1444

Oil Spill Remediation Using Magnetic Particles: An Experiment in Environmental Technology

John D. Orbell , Leroy Godhino , Stephen W. Bigger , Thi Man Nguyen and Lawrence N. Ngeh
p 1446
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1446

Laboratory Experiments on Electrochemical Remediation of the Environment. Part 2: Microscale Indirect Electrolytic Destruction of Organic Wastes

Jorge G. Ibanez , M. M. Singh , R. M. Pike and Z. Szafran
p 1449
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1449

Kinetics of p-Nitrophenol Degradation by Pseudomonas sp.: An Experiment Illustrating Bioremediation

Michelle H. Duong , Samuel L. Penrod and Stanley B. Grant
p 1451
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1451

Carbon Dioxide Dissolution as a Relaxation Process: A Kinetics Experiment for Physical Chemistry

Peter G. Bowers , Mordecai B. Rubin , Richard M. Noyes and Dagmar Andueza
p 1455
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1455

Illustration of Deviations in the Beer-Lambert Law in an Instrumental Analysis Laboratory: Measuring Atmospheric Pollutants by Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometry

Heather C. Allen , Theo Brauers and Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts
p 1459
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1459

Complexometric Titration of Zinc: An Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Experiment

S. G. Novick
p 1463
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1463

Acetone and Ethyl Acetate in Commercial Nail Polish Removers: A Quantitative NMR Experiment Using an Internal Standard

David W. Clarke
p 1464
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1464

The Diels-Alder Reaction of 2,4-Hexadien-1-ol with Maleic Anhydride: A Novel Preparation for the Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory Course

Keith F. McDaniel and R. Matthew Weekly
p 1465
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1465

Investigation of Atropisomerism in ortho-Substituted Tetraphenylporphyrins: An Experimental Module Involving Synthesis, Chromatography, and NMR Spectroscopy

Ruth Freitag Beeston , Shannon E. Stitzel and Mitchell A. Rhea
p 1468
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1468

Photosensitized Peroxidation of Lipids: An Experiment Using 1H-NMR

Marion W. Smith , Renee Brown , Steven Smullin and Jon Eager
p 1471
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1471

Following Glycolysis Using 13C NMR: An Experiment Adaptable to Different Undergraduate Levels

T. L. Mega , C. B. Carlson and D. A. Cleary
p 1474
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1474

Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Nitrogen Spin-Spin Coupling in NMR Spectroscopy: Simple Examples Based on Isotope-Labeled Glycines

Leif Grehn , Ulf Ragnarsson and Christopher J. Welch
p 1477
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1477

Research: Science and Education

Useful Examples for Discussion of Proton-NMR Spectroscopy: N-Substituted alpha-Aminobenzenebutanenitriles. Anisotropy of Diastereotopic Methylene Protons

John Almy , R. Martinez Alverez , A. Herrera Fernandez and A. Sanchez Vazquez
p 1479
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1479

A General Approach for Calculating Proton Chemical Shifts for Methyl, Methylene and Methine Protons When There Are One or More Substituents within Three Carbons

Philip S. Beauchamp and Rodolfo Marquez
p 1483
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1483

False AA'X Spin-Spin Coupling Systems in 13C NMR: Examples Involving Phosphorus and a 20-Year-Old Mystery in Off-Resonance Decoupling

William H. Hersh
p 1485
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1485

Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources

Educational NMR Software

Peter Lundberg
p 1489
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1489

Using Maple To Obtain Analytic Expressions in Physical Chemistry

Sean A. C. McDowell
p 1491
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1491

Wohler's Urea Synthesis: Modern Version

George B. Kauffman and Steven H. Chooljian
p 1493
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1493

The Mechanism of Covalent Bonding

George B. Bacskay , Jeffrey R. Reimers and Sture Nordholm
p 1494
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1494

The Basics of Covalent Bonding

Jeffrey R. Reimers , George B. Bacskay and Sture Nordholm
p 1503
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1503.1
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DNA Sequencing Update

John F. Beck and David L. Bunbury
p 1503
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1503.2
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Articles

Index, Volume 74, 1997

p 1505
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1505

JCE Annual Index, Volume 74, 1997: Author Index

p 1506
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1506

Index, Volume 74, 1997: Subject Index

p 1522
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1522

Index, Volume 74, 1997: Book Review Index

p 1550
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1550
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