Table of Contents

December 1998
Volume 75, Issue 12
Pages 1506-1709
About the Cover:

A satellite view of sediment being deposited into the Coral Sea introduces this month's focus - environmental chemistry. Articles found on pages 1581-1621 discuss a broad range of applications of chemistry to our physical, chemical, biological, and geological surroundings, including endangered species, water analysis, herbicides in soils, and the natural selection of various elements for biogeochemical systems.

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Chemical Education Today

From Past Issues: The More Things Change...

p 1506
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1506

In This Issue: Celebrating 75 Years!

p 1507
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1507
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Looking Outward from the Central Science

John W. Moore
p 1511
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1511
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News from Journal House

p 1512
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (News and Announcements)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1512
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Especially for High School Teachers

J. Emory Howell
p 1513
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1513
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Announcements

JCE staff
p 1517
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (News and Announcements)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1517
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The State of Chemical Education: Where Are We and Where Are We Headed?

Glenn T. Seaborg
p 1518
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1518

Watershed Years: 1955-1967

William F. Kieffer
p 1542
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1542

Organic Chemistry, 2nd Edition (Brown, William H.; Foote, Christopher S.)

Chriss McDonald
p 1555
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1555.1
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Pulsed Electrochemical Detection in High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (LaCourse, William R.)

John K. Sanders
p 1555
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1555.2
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Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry (Simons, Jack; Nichols, Jeff)

C. Michael McCallum
p 1556
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1556
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Physical Adsorption: Forces and Phenomena (Bruch, L.W.; Cole, Milton W.; Zaremba, Eugene)

Todd Raeker
p 1557
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1557
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Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions and Mechanisms (Miller, Bernard)

Daniel J. Berger
p 1558
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1558
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The Natural Selection of the Chemical Elements (Williams, R.J.P.; Frausto da Silva, J.J.R.)

George B. Kauffman
p 1559
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1559
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Chemistry Everyday for Everyone

Demonstrations of the Enormity of Avogadro's Number

Damon Diemente
p 1565
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1565
History, Education, and Documentation

The Egg in the Bottle Revisited: Air Pressure and Amontons' Law (Charles' Law)

Louis H. Adcock
p 1567
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1567
History, Education, and Documentation

CD Light: An Introduction to Spectroscopy

JCE staff
p 1568A
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Activity)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1568A

CD-ROM Spectroscope: A Simple and Inexpensive Tool for Classroom Demonstrations on Chemical Spectroscopy

Fumitaka Wakabayashi , Kiyohito Hamada , Kozo Sone
p 1569
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1569
History, Education, and Documentation

Appalachian Trail Problems

Brian N. Akers
p 1571
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1571
History, Education, and Documentation

In the Classroom

Stereowordimers-Minding Your P's and Q's

Edward G. Neeland
p 1573
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1573
History, Education, and Documentation

Chemical Kinetics without Calculus

Igor Novak
p 1574
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1574
History, Education, and Documentation

Organic Chemistry Lab as a Research Experience

Thomas R. Ruttledge
p 1575
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1575
History, Education, and Documentation

Introduction of the Scientific Method and Atomic Theory to Liberal Arts Chemistry Students

James R. Hohman
p 1578
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1578
History, Education, and Documentation

The Blue Bottle Experiment - Simple Demonstration of Self-Organization

L'ubica Adamcíková and Peter Sevcík
p 1580
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1580
History, Education, and Documentation

Generating Water-Soluble Noxious Gases: An Overhead Projector Demonstration

Sally Solomon , Maria Oliver-Hoyo and Chinhyu Hur
p 1581
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1581
History, Education, and Documentation

Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal: An Exercise in Dealing with Pollution

Grant R. Krow , Jessica B. Krow
p 1583
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1583
History, Education, and Documentation

In the Laboratory

Identifying Bottled Water: A Problem-Solving Exercise in Chemical Identification

Richard L. Myers
p 1585
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1585
History, Education, and Documentation

Determination of Nitrate and Nitrite in Water by Capillary Electrophoresis: An Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment

David S. Hage , Anuja Chattopadhyay , Carrie A. C. Wolfe , Julie Grundman and Paul Kelter
p 1588
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1588
History, Education, and Documentation

Synthesis and Separation of a Diastereomeric Sulfonium Ion by Capillary Zone Electrophoresis

Francisco A. Valenzuela , Thomas K. Green and Darwin B. Dahl
p 1590
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1590
Organic Analytical Chemistry

Chemical Analysis of an Endangered Conifer: Environmental Laboratory Experiments

Royce S. Woosley and David J. Butcher
p 1592
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1592
History, Education, and Documentation

A New GC-MS Experiment for the Undergraduate Instrumental Analysis Laboratory in Environmental Chemistry: Methyl-t-butyl Ether and Benzene in Gasoline

Dinh T. Quach , Nancy A. Ciszkowski and Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts
p 1595
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1595
History, Education, and Documentation

Chromatography, Absorption, and Fluorescence: A New Instrumental Analysis Experiment on the Measurement of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Cigarette Smoke

Lisa M. Wingen , Jason C. Low and Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts
p 1599
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1599
History, Education, and Documentation

Inhibition of Sulfite Oxidation by Phenols: Screening Antioxidant Behavior with a Clark Oxygen Sensor

László Sipos
p 1603
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1603
History, Education, and Documentation

Sulfides in the Anaerobic Environment: The Determination of Hydrogen Sulfide and Acid-Soluble Metallic Sulfides in Sea-Floor Sediment

Lee Sing Kong , Joan Kai Christensen , Boy Høyer , Lars Kryger and Niels Pind
p 1605
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1605

The Distribution Coefficient of Atrazine with Illinois Soils: A Laboratory Exercise in Environmental Chemistry

Eric Dolan , Yan Zhang and Douglas G. Klarup
p 1609
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1609
History, Education, and Documentation

A Precise Method for Determining the CO2 Content of Carbonate Materials

Donald L. Pile , Alana S. Benjamin , Klaus S. Lackner , Christopher H. Wendt and Darryl P. Butt
p 1610
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1610
History, Education, and Documentation

Quantitative HPLC Analysis of a Psychotherapeutic Medication: Simultaneous Determination of Amitriptyline Hydrochloride and Perphenazine

Glenda K. Ferguson
p 1615
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1615
History, Education, and Documentation

Rapid, Sensitive, Enzyme-Immunodotting Assay for Detecting Cow Milk Adulteration in Sheep Milk: A Modern Laboratory Project

María A. Alava , Miguel Calvo , Luis A. Inda , Pedro Razquín and Fermín Lampreave
p 1618
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1618

A Thermodynamic Study of Azide Binding to Myoglobin

Anne T. Marcoline and Timothy E. Elgren
p 1622
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1622
History, Education, and Documentation

Reduction of 2,6-Dimethylcyclohexanone with Sodium Borohydride Revisited: A Correction on the Structural Assignments of the Products, and the Discovery of a Solvent Effect

Bruce A. Hathaway
p 1623
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1623
History, Education, and Documentation

The Spontaneous Hydrolysis of Methyl Chloroformate: A Physical Chemistry Experiment for Teaching Techniques in Chemical Kinetics

Omar A. El Seoud and Keiko Takashima
p 1625
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1625

The Effects of Salts and Nonelectrolytes on the Solubility of Potassium Bitartrate: An Introductory Chemistry Discovery Experiment

Charles J. Marzzacco
p 1628
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1628
History, Education, and Documentation

Microscale Thermite Reactions

Francisco J. Arnáiz , Rafael Aguado and Susana Arnáiz
p 1630
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1630
History, Education, and Documentation

The Pechmann Reaction

Michael S. Holden and R. David Crouch
p 1631
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1631
History, Education, and Documentation

Conformation Interchange in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Keith C. Brown , Randy L. Tyson and John A. Weil
p 1632
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1632
History, Education, and Documentation

Rotational Barriers in Push-Pull Ethylenes: An Advanced Physical-Organic Project Including 2D EXSY and Computational Chemistry

Tammy J. Dwyer , Julia E. Norman and Paul G. Jasien
p 1635
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1635
History, Education, and Documentation

Recycling Solvent Mixtures of Ethyl Acetate and Hexanes

Timothy J. Wilkinson
p 1640
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1640
History, Education, and Documentation

Research: Science and Education

Chemical Reactions in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

Chien M. Wai , Fred Hunt , Min Ji and Xiaoyuan Chen
p 1641
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1641
History, Education, and Documentation

Temperature Scale Conversion as a Linear Equation: True Unit Conversion vs Zero-Offset Correction

Reuben Rudman
p 1646
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1646
History, Education, and Documentation

An Excursion into Phase Tetrahedra-Where Physical Chemistry and Geometry Meet

S. Ezrahi , A. Aserin , N. Garti and G. Berkovic
p 1648
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1648
History, Education, and Documentation

Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources

An Assessment of a Physical Chemistry Online Activity

Marcy Hamby Towns , Kelley Kreke , Deborah Sauder , Roland Stout , George Long and Theresa Julia Zielinski
p 1653
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1653
History, Education, and Documentation

Developing and Using Conceptual Computer Animations for Chemistry Instruction

K. A. Burke , Thomas J. Greenbowe and Mark A. Windschitl
p 1658
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1658
History, Education, and Documentation

Conceptualizing Kinetics with Curve Fitting

Ed Vitz
p 1661
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1661
History, Education, and Documentation

Journal of Chemical Education on CD-ROM, 1998

p 1664
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1664
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Articles

Beer's Law: The Real Hazards

S.R. Logan
p 1514
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1514.1
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Beer's Law: The Real Hazards (the author replies)

Mark Muyskens
p 1514
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1514.2
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Photodimerization of Maleic Anhydride

Zhijun Zhang
p 1515
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1515
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Author Index

p 1666
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1666

Subject Index

p 1680
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1680

Book Review Index

p 1709
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 1998 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed075p1709
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