Table of Contents

August 1997
Volume 74, Issue 8
Pages 873-1016
About the Cover:

The cover is derived from a series of figures that show the frequency of occurrence of coordination geometries of d-block elements as a function of oxidation state (page 915).

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p 873
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p873
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The Cost of Journals

John W. Moore
p 877
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p877
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News

p 878
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (News and Announcements)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p878
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Especially for High School Teachers

J. Emory Howell
p 879
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p879
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What a Tangled Web

A. C. Hall
p 880
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p880.1
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What a Tangled Web (the author replies)

Michael Laing
p 880
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p880.2
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Dissociation Constant for a Monoprotic Acid

Richard W. Ramette
p 880
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p880.3
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Announcements

JCE staff
p 881
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (News and Announcements)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p881
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Program for the Division of Chemical Education

p 882
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p882

Discovering Las Vegas

Paul S. Cohen and Brenda H. Cohen
p 890
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p890

Association Reports: Council on Undergraduate Research: An Investment in Tomorrow: Undergraduate Research Students Meet Members of Congress

Judith A. Halstead
p 892
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p892

Collaboration: Why Participate in an Unnatural Act?

John Clevenger
p 894
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p894

ACS Division of Chemical Education

p 896
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p896

The Physics Teacher

Volker B. E. Thomsen
p 897
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p897

Dissociation Constant for a Monoprotic Acid (the authors reply)

R. Garcia-Domenech , J. V. de Julian-Ortiz , G. M. Anton-Fos and Jorge Galvez-Alvarez
p 899
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p899
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The Dimensions of Logarithmic Quantities

Robert D. Freeman
p 900
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p900.1
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Correction for Convergent Synthesis of Betaine-30, a Solvatochromic Dye

Marion W. Smith and Charles E. Russell
p 900
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Addition/Correction)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p900.2
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To Weigh

George B. Kauffman
p 900
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p900.3
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Chemical Magic: An Update

Bruce R. Osterby and Ronald D. McKelvey
p 900
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p900.4
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ACD/ChemSketch 1.0 (freeware); ACD/ChemSketch 2.0 and its Tautomers, Dictionary, and 3D Plug-ins; ACD/HNMR 2.0; ACD/CNMR 2.0

Allen D. Hunter
p 905
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p905
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Foundations of College Chemistry, 9th ed. (Hein, Morris; Arena, Susan)

Colin D. Hubbard
p 908
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p908.1
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Physical Chemistry Using Mathcad (Noggle, Joseph H.)

Ronald D. Poshusta
p 908
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p908.2
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Thermodynamics, 2nd ed. (Gocken, N. A.; Reddy, R. G.)

John R. Gunn
p 909
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p909
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Booknotes: Chemical Research Faculties: An International Directory

George B. Kauffman
p 910
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p910
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Chemistry Everyday for Everyone

Why Don't Things Go Wrong More Often? Activation Energies: Maxwell's Angels, Obstacles to Murphy's Law

Frank L. Lambert
p 947
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p947

On Chemical Modeling an Alchemical Process: The Use of Combined Chemical Methods in a Historical Study

Mikhail Yu. Rodygin and Irene V. Rodygin
p 949
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p949
History, Education, and Documentation

"Biochemical Predestination" as Heuristic Principle for Understanding the Origin of Life

Stephan Berry
p 950
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p950
History, Education, and Documentation

In the Classroom

Why and How To Teach Acid-Base Reactions without Equilibrium

Terry S. Carlton
p 939
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p939
History, Education, and Documentation

The sodium rainbow

Miroslav Proksa
p 942
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p942
History, Education, and Documentation

Observation of magnetic repulsion acting on a nitrogen bubble on a water surface: A simple experiment studying diamagnetic property of nitrogen

Yukinori Matsuyama , Takashi Yasuoka , Syunmei Mitsuzawa and Tunetaka Sasaki
p 943
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p943.1

Chemical Behavior

Paul G. Jasien
p 943
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p943.2

Some Prerequisites for Achieving Better Results in Teaching Chemical Technology at the University Level

Rumen Ivanov Dimitrov and Boyanka Tsankova Mateeva
p 944
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p944
History, Education, and Documentation

Experimenting with Interdisciplinary Science

Linda L. Ramsey , David L. Radford and William C. Deese
p 946
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p946

In the Laboratory

Introducing Scientific Reasoning with the Penny Lab

Robert F. Mauldin
p 952
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p952
History, Education, and Documentation

Guided Discovery: Law of Specific Heats

Thomas H. Bindel and John C. Fochi
p 955
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p955
History, Education, and Documentation

Low-Cost Constant Temperature Heating Block

Charles G. Shevlin , Ward Coppersmith , Christopher Fish , Stanley Vlock and William Vellema
p 958
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p958
History, Education, and Documentation

An Inexpensive Demountalbe IR Cell Fitted with Glass Windows

Keiichi Ohno , Hiroatsu Matsuura and Haruhiko Tanaka
p 961
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p961
History, Education, and Documentation

A Simple Laboratory Demonstration of Electrochromism

Bertil Forslund
p 962
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p962
History, Education, and Documentation

A Simple Undergraduate Concentration Step Experiment

John Cassidy , Fiona Fitzpatrick and Sean Culhane
p 964
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p964

Convection in a Continuously Stratified Fluid

Richard M. Heavers
p 965
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p965
History, Education, and Documentation

Determination of pKa from Luminescence Quenching Data: An Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment

Hector E. Gsponer , Gustavo A. Arguello and Gerardo A. Arguello
p 968
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p968
History, Education, and Documentation

An Undergraduate Physical Chemistry Experiment on the Analysis of First-Order Kinetic Data

M.R.K. Hemalatha and I. Noorbatcha
p 972
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p972
History, Education, and Documentation

A Novel Experiment in Chemical Kinetics: The A <> B > C Reaction System

B. R. Ramachandran and Arthur M. Halpern
p 975
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p975

Kinetics of Internal Rotation of N,N-Dimethylacetamide: A Spin-Saturation Transfer Experiment

Russell L. Jarek , Robert J. Flesher and Seung Koo Shin
p 978
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p978
History, Education, and Documentation

Study of Molecular Cluster in Undergraduate Physical Chemistry

D. Kahn and R. Viswanathan
p 982
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p982
History, Education, and Documentation

Alternative Compounds for the Particle in a Box Experiment

Bruce D. Anderson
p 985
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p985
History, Education, and Documentation

The Gravimetric Analysis of Nickel Using a Microwave Oven

Nadia Carmosini , Sanaz Ghoreshy and Marina C. Koether
p 986
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p986

Extraction and Assay of Ornithine Decarboxylase: A Laboratory Experiment that Introduces Principles of Radiochemical Enzymatic Assay

William H. Voige
p 988
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p988
History, Education, and Documentation

An Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory Experiment: The Multistep Synthesis of a Modified Nucleoside

Peter deLannoy and Joseph Howell
p 990
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p990

A Thermostable Microbial Enzyme for Fast Preparative Organic Chemistry: The Preparation of (R-(+)-1-Phenylethanol from (+/)-1-Phenylethyl Pentanoate and n-Butanol

Jacques Drouin , Jeanne Costante and Eryk Guibe-Jampel
p 992
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p992
History, Education, and Documentation

Methylation of Isobutyrophenone Using Potassium Triphenylmethide: An Advanced Organic Chemistry Laboratory Experiment

Fred J. Matthews
p 996
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p996
History, Education, and Documentation

A Laboratory Exercise in Statistical Analysis of Data

Mark F. Vitha and Peter W. Carr
p 998
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p998
History, Education, and Documentation

Research: Science and Education

A Coordination Geometry Table of the d-Block Elements and Their Ions

D. Venkataraman , Yuhua Du , Scott R. Wilson , Keith A. Hirsch , Peng Zhang and Jeffrey S. Moore
p 915
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p915
History, Education, and Documentation

Determination of ΔH for Reactions of the Born-Haber Cycle

Richard S. Treptow
p 919
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p919
History, Education, and Documentation

Atomic and Molecular Structure in Chemical Education: A Critical Analysis from Various Perspectives of Science Education

Georgios Tsaparlis
p 922
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p922
History, Education, and Documentation

Global Metabolism of Elements: Principles and Applications in Bioinorganic Chemistry - XI

Ei-Ichiro Ochiai
p 926
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p926
History, Education, and Documentation

Applications of the Variation Method

Stephen K. Knudson
p 930
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p930
History, Education, and Documentation

Variational Treatment of Attractive Central Power-Law Potentials

B. Cameron Reed
p 935
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p935
History, Education, and Documentation

Buffer Index and Buffer Capacity for a Simple Buffer Solution

Veronica Chiriac and Gabriel Balea
p 937
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p937
History, Education, and Documentation

Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources

Least Squares Fitting of Non-Linear Data in the Undergraduate Laboratory

Theresa Julia Zielinski and Robert D. Allendoerfer
p 1001
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1001
History, Education, and Documentation

Simplex Method of Nonlinear Least-Squares - A Logical Complementary Method to Linear Least-Square Analysis of Data

Shannon G. Lieb
p 1008
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1008
History, Education, and Documentation

Chemical Literature: A Course Composed of Traditional and Online Searching Techniques

Fred J. Matthews
p 1011
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1011
History, Education, and Documentation

Alkanes in Motion (Program for Mac OS-Compatible Computers: J. Chem. Educ. Software Vol. 9C, No. 1)

Jae Hyun Kim
p 1015
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1015
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Enriching Quantum Chemistry with Mathcad (Program for Mac OS-Compatible Computers: J. Chem. Educ. Software Vol. 9C, No. 1)

Frank Rioux
p 1016
Publication Date (Web): August 1, 1997 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed074p1016
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