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July 1997
Volume 74, Issue 7
Pages 737-871
About the Cover:

Electron density diagrams like those shown on the cover can be used quite effectively in general and organic chemistry. Shusterman and Shusterman show how beginning on page 771.

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p 737
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p737
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Scholarship in Chemical Education

John W. Moore
p 741
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p741
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News

p 742
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (News and Announcements)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p742
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Especially for High School Teachers

J. Emory Howell
p 743
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p743
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Ethics for Scientists

Shaun O. Sommerer
p 744
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p744.1
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Ethics for Scientists (the author replies)

Jeffrey Kovac
p 744
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p744.2
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Beer-Lambert Law

Dean Calloway
p 744
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p744.3
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Double Redox Reactions

Zoltán Tóth
p 744
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p744.4
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Double Redox Reactions (the authors reply)

Claudio Giomini , Giancarlo Marrosu and Mario E. Cardinali
p 744
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p744.5
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Titration Curve Analysis: Some Observations

P. Glaister
p 744
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p744.6
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Gibbs Controversy

Rubin Battino
p 744
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p744.7
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About letters to the Editor

p 744
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p744.8
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Announcements

JCE staff
p 745
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (News and Announcements)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p745
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Some Food for Thought

Paul F. Schatz
p 746
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p746

Summer Reading

p 748
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Commentary)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p748
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Division of Chemical Education - The Biennel Conferences on Chemical Education

A. Truman Schwartz
p 750
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p750

2YC3 - Filling the Void: Community Colleges Give Millions of Students the Chance To Succeed

Ken Bentsen
p 753
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p753

Education for Industry

Lynn Melton
p 754
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Commentary)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p754
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Issues in Gateway Chemistry Courses: A Statewide Conference on Chemical Curriculum Reform

William S. Harwood , Vera Zdravkovich and Laurence Boucher
p 755
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p755

Engineering Students Abroad

Marché R. Haddad
p 757
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p757

Chemistry Under Extreme or Non-Classical Conditions (von Eldik, Rudi; Hubbard, Colin D.)

William J. le Noble
p 764
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p764.1
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IR MENTOR PRO 2.0 (Bio-Rad Laboratories)

John C. Cochran
p 764
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p764.2
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The Eleventh Plague: The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare (Cole, Leonard A.)

Jeffrey Kovac
p 765
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p765
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Before Big Science: The Pursuit of Modern Chemistry and Physics 1800-1940 (Nye, Mary Jo)

David Todd
p 766
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p766
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Chemistry Everyday for Everyone

Medicines and Drugs from Plants

William C. Agosta
p 857
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p857

Hot and Spicy versus Cool and Minty as an Example of Organic Structure-Activity Relationships

Doris R. Kimbrough
p 861
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p861
History, Education, and Documentation

The Great Ideas of Chemistry

Ronald J. Gillespie
p 862
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p862

The Pathway to the Ostwald Dilution Law

John T. Stock
p 865
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p865

In the Classroom

Teaching Chemistry with Electron Density Models

Alan J. Shusterman , Gwendolyn P. Shusterman
p 771
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p771

VSEPR theory demo

Janice Parker
p 776
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p776

Database vs. Expert System Teaching Paradigms: Using Organic Reaction Mechanisms To Teach Chemical Intuition

Paul H. Scudder
p 777
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p777

Old MacDonald Named a Compound: Branched Enynenynols

Dennis Ryan
p 782
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p782

Making Organic Concepts Visible

Robert S. H. Liu and Alfred E. Asato
p 783
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p783

Materials Science Teaching Module as Adjunct to Introductory Chemistry

Terry D. Gulden , Kirk P. Norton , Holger H. Streckert , Lawrence D. Woolf , Joseph A. Baron , Shauna C. Brammer , Danine L. Ezell and Roger D. Wynn
p 785
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p785

Preparing Preservice Chemistry Teachers for Constructivist Classrooms through Use of Authentic Activities

Loretta L. Jones , Harry Buckler , Nathaniel Cooper and Belia Straushein
p 787
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p787

The Suggestion Box-An Old Idea Brings the "Real World" Back to Freshman Chemistry Students (and Professors)

Andreas Stein
p 788
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p788

The Use of Cut-Out Molecular Models on the Overhead Projector To Illustrate Stoichiometry and Limiting Reactants

Richard J. Kashmar
p 791
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p791

The Periodic Building of the Elements: Can a Periodic Table Be Transformed into a Stereo One?

Fu-cheng He and Xiang-yuan Li
p 792
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p792

Use of Pom Pons To Illustrate Cubic Crystal Structures

Susan G. Cady
p 794
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p794

An Inexpensive Kit for Constructing Models of Crystals

Michael Laing
p 795
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p795

Teaching Space Group Symmetry through Problems

George L. Hardgrove Jr.
p 797
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p797

In the Laboratory

Electrochemistry "Discovery" Course for Undergraduates

Michael Alan May and Vijay K. Gupta
p 824
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p824

A New Investigative Sophomore Organic Laboratory Involving Individual Research Projects

Gregory B. Kharas
p 829
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p829
History, Education, and Documentation

Synthesis of 4-Nitro-1-Pentynylbenzene: An Example of Transitional Metal-Mediated Cross-Coupling

Ronald G. Brisbois , William G. Batterman and Scott R. Kragerud
p 832
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p832
History, Education, and Documentation

Microscale Dehydration of Cyclohexanol Using a Macroreticular Cation Exchange Resin as Catalyst

Harriet P. Moeur , Sharon A. Swatik and Robert P. Pinnell
p 833
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p833
History, Education, and Documentation

Synthesis of Tetrahydro-2-(2-propynyloxy)-2H-pyran: Illustrating Markownikov Addition, Protecting Groups, and Advance 1H-NMR Phenomena

Ronald G. Brisbois , William G. Batterman and Scott R. Kragerud
p 834
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p834

Conversion of an Alkyl Chloride to a Bromide (or Vice-Versa) by Homogeneous Nucleophile Exchange

Roger C. Hahn
p 836
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p836

Reduction of Chlorinated Dibenzodioxin and Dibenzofuran Formation in the Beilstein Test

Theodore D. Goldfarb and Sabine G. Fontana
p 838
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p838

Removing Silicone Grease from Glassware

Thomas H. Lowry
p 841
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p841

A General Chemistry Experiment Incorporating Synthesis and Structural Determination

Hal Van Ryswyk
p 842
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p842

Does Copper Metal React with Acetic Acid?

Stephen DeMeo
p 844
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p844

Potentiometric Measurement of Transition Ranges and Titration Errors for Acid/Base Indicators

Paul A. Flowers
p 846
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p846

Modern Instrumental Analysis Laboratory Experiment: Quantitative Determination of Cr (III) and Co (II) Using a Spectroscopic H-Point Standard Addition Method

Siddarth Pandey , Joyce R. Powell , Mary E. R. McHale and William E. Acree Jr.
p 848
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p848

An Integrated-Circuit Temperature Sensor for Calorimetry and Differential Temperature Measurement

Mark Muyskens
p 850
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p850

A Room Temperature Emission Lifetime Experiment for the Physical Chemistry Laboratory

Shelly Roalstad , Chad Rue , Clifford B. LeMaster and Carol Lasko
p 853
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p853

Influence of pH on Drug Absorption from the Gastrointestinal Tract: A Simple Chemical Model

Raymond J. S. Hickman and Jane Neill
p 855
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p855
History, Education, and Documentation

Research: Science and Education

Molecules, Crystals, and Chirality

Il-Hwan Suh , Koon Ha Park , William P. Jensen and David E. Lewis
p 800
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p800

On the Character Tables of Finite Point Groups

Ivan Baraldi and Davide Vanossi
p 806
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p806

Reducible Representation for Linear Molecules

Ian J. McNaught
p 809
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p809

More than One Character Table? Yes!

Ian J. McNaught
p 811
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p811

A Three-Dimensional Energy Surface for the Conformational Inversion of Cyclohexane

Nicholas Leventis , Samir B. Hanna and Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis
p 813
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p813

Paramagnetic Susceptibility by NMR: The "Solvent Correction" Removed for Large Paramagnetic Molecules

Claude Piguet
p 815
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p815
Magnetic Phenomena

Free Radical Reactions in Aqueous Solutions: Examples from Advanced Oxidation Processes for Wastewater from the Chemistry in Airborne Water Droplets

N. Colin Baird
p 817
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p817
Waste Treatment and Disposal

Students' Misconceptions in Electrochemistry Regarding Current Flow in Electrolyte Solutions and the Salt Bridge

Michael J. Sanger and Thomas J. Greenbowe
p 819
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p819

Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources

Ionization or Dissociation?

Emeric Schultz
p 868
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p868

Creating and Using a Consumer Chemical Molecular Graphics Database: The "Molecule of the Day" - A Great Way To Begin Your Lecture

Maureen A. Scharberg , Oran E. Cox and Carl A. Barelli
p 869
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p869

Two Simulations for Windows: Abstract of Volume 5D, Number 1

p 871
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 1997 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p871
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