Table of Contents

January 1999
Volume 76, Issue 1
Pages 5-143
About the Cover:

A collage of photographs taken in the Canadian Rockies: a moraine lake and valley of the Ten Peaks and a climber approaching the summit of Mt. Athabaska. John Norman Collie, a chemist and mountaineer who lived from 1859 to 1942, climbed extensively in Skye, the English Lake District, Ireland, the Alps, Norway, and the Himalaya. On three expeditions to Canada, he carried out extensive mapping and is credited with the discovery of the great Columbia ice field. Collie's contributions to chemistry are featured in an article on pages 41-47.

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Chemical Education Today

Do We Really Value Learning?

John W. Moore
p 5
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p5
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A Year To Make a Difference

J. Emory Howell
p 7
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p7
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Anniversaries: 1999

Paul F. Schatz
p 8
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p8

Chemistry in the News: 1998 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Medicine

Jennifer B. Miller
p 12
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p12
History, Education, and Documentation

MBRS Programs at East Los Angeles College

Carcy Chan
p 15
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p15

The Science Teacher: Winter Break, 1999

Steve Long
p 17
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p17

The Physics Teacher

Volker B. E. Thomsen
p 18
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p18

The Cinderella Story Revisited-Again

Kathryn R. Williams and Gardiner H. Myers
p 19
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p19.1

From Past Issues: Mission Statement

Kathryn R. Williams
p 19
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p19.2

Why Should Anyone Become a Scientist? The Ideal of Science and Its Importance

Lewyn Li
p 20
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Commentary)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p20
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Teacher Preparation and Enhancement Programs at the NSF Web Site

Donald J. Wink
p 21
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p21

Incorporation of GC-MS into an Environmental Science Curriculum

Audrey E. McGowin and George G. Hess
p 23
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p23

News and Announcements

JCE staff
p 25
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (News and Announcements)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p25
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Molecular Mechanics across Chemistry (Rappé, Anthony K.; Casewit, Carla J.)

G. Craig Hill
p 31
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p31.1
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Dendritic Macromolecules: Concepts, Syntheses, Perspectives (Newkome, G. R.; Moorefield, C. N.; Vögtle, F.)

Steven C. Zimmerman
p 31
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p31.2
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Chain Gang-The Chemistry of Polymers (ed Sarquis, Mickey)

David M. Collard
p 32
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p32
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Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry: Fundamentals, Instrumentation and Applications (ed. Cole, Richard B.)

Howard D. Dewald
p 33
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p33.1
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Reductions by the Alumino- and Borohydrides in Organic Synthesis, 2nd edition (Seyden-Penne, Jacqueline)

R. C. Hoye
p 33
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p33.2
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Guidebook to Protein Toxins and Their Use in Cell Biology (eds Rappuoli, R.; Montecucco, C.)

Steven John Pernecky
p 34
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p34.1
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CHEMiCALC (4000161) and CHEMiCALC Personal Tutor (4001108), Version 4.0 (Ramsay, O. Bertrand)

Scott White and George Bodner
p 34
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p34.2
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Electrophoresis: The Basics (Hawcroft, D. M.)

William H. Voige
p 35
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p35
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Books Noted

p 36
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DOI: 10.1021/ed076p36
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Chemistry Everyday for Everyone

The Effects of Temperature on Lightsticks

p 40A
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Activity)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p40A

John Norman Collie: Chemist and Mountaineer

Ronald Bentley
p 41
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p41

Noble Metal-Membrane Composites for Electrochemical Applications

Pierre Millet
p 47
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p47
History, Education, and Documentation

In the Classroom

Animating Reactions: A Low-Cost Activity for Particle Conceptualization at the Secondary Level

Robert W. Milne
p 50
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p50
History, Education, and Documentation

Amounts Tables as a Diagnostic Tool for Flawed Stoichiometric Reasoning

John Olmsted III
p 52
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p52

The Gravity of the Situation

Damon Diemente
p 55
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p55

Functional Group Analysis

Johannes S. Malherbe and Cornelius J. Meyer
p 56
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p56

Solving the Mathematics of a Kinetic and Regiochemical Problem: The Dehydration Reaction of a cis-trans Mixture of 2-Methylcycloalkanols

John J. Cawley
p 58
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p58

The Design and Synthesis of a Large Interactive Classroom

Laurel L. Clouston and Mark H. Kleinman
p 60
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p60

Synthesis of Colored Superabsorbent Polymer and Its Use To Demonstrate Convection Currents in Water by Heating

Morio Takaki and Toshiyuki Itoh
p 62
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p62

A Simple Demonstration Model of Osmosis

Joseph G. Morse , Ed Vitz
p 64
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p64

Luminosity, my dear Watson, luminosity! - Or, are those bloodstains?

Barbara A. Burke , Kamran Golestaneh and Helene Samson , Galen P. Mell
p 65
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p65
History, Education, and Documentation

The Crystallization Clinic-A TA Orientation Exercise

Marjorie Kandel
p 67
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p67

A Lab Safety "Scavenger Hunt"

Terry L. Helser
p 68
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p68
History, Education, and Documentation

In the Laboratory

Vial Organic - Organic Chemistry Labs for High School and Junior College

Mark Meszaros , Thomas J. Russo
p 69
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p69

Micropreparation of [RuH2{P(C6H5)3}4]: A Transition Metal Hydride Compound

Donald E. Linn Jr.
p 70
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p70
History, Education, and Documentation

A Microscale Synthesis of the Diastereomers of 2,3-Dibromosuccinic Acid

John Tomsho , James R. McKee and Murray Zanger
p 73
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p73

A Multistep Synthesis of 4-Nitro-1-ethynylbenzene Involving Palladium Catalysis, Conformational Analysis, Acetal Hydrolysis, and Oxidative Decarbonylation

Thomas E. Goodwin , Eva M. Hurst and Ashley S. Ross
p 74
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p74
History, Education, and Documentation

Side Reactions in a Grignard Synthesis

Hilton M. Weiss
p 76
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p76

A Simple Method for Determining the Absolute Configuration of alpha-Amino Acids

Esteban P. Urriolabeitia , María Dolores Díaz-de-Villegas
p 77
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p77

Use of Protecting Groups in Carbohydrate Chemistry: An Advanced Organic Synthesis Experiment

Anna C. Cunha , Leticia O. R. Pereira , Maria Cecília B. V. de Souza and Vitor F. Ferreira
p 79
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p79
History, Education, and Documentation

Inquiry-Based Approach to a Carbohydrate Analysis Experiment

Edward G. Senkbeil
p 80
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p80

The Preparation of a Fluorescent Dye: A Microscale TLC Experiment

Daniel S. Calimente , Shannon M. Strand , Shao-Chieh Chang and David E. Lewis
p 82
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p82

Chromatography

Celestyn M. Brozek
p 83
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p83

Laser-Induced Fluorescence of Lightsticks

Carl Salter , Kevin Range and Gail Salter
p 84
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p84

Comparison of Analytical Methods: Direct Emission versus First-Derivative Fluorometric Methods for Quinine Determination in Tonic Waters

Siddharth Pandey , Tammie L. Borders , Carmen E. Hernández , Lindsay E. Roy , Gaddum D. Reddy , Geo L. Martinez , Autumn Jackson , Guenevere Brown and William E. Acree Jr.
p 85
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p85

The Ionization Energy of Helium

M. J. Kaufman and C. G. Trowbridge
p 88
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p88

Spectroscopy of Simple Molecules

C. Baer and K. Cornely
p 89
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p89
History, Education, and Documentation

Sweet Chemistry

Benedict Aurian-Blajeni , Jonathan Sam and Michael Sisak
p 91
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p91

Determination of the Critical Micelle Concentration of Cationic Surfactants: An Undergraduate Experiment

Xirong Huang , Jinghe Yang , Wenjuan Zhang , Zhenyu Zhang and Zesheng An
p 93
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p93
History, Education, and Documentation

The Nernst Equation: Determination of Equilibrium Constants for Complex Ions of Silver

Martin L. Thompson and Laura J. Kateley
p 95
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p95

Student Construction of a Gel-Filled Ag/AgCl Reference Electrode for Use in a Potentiometric Titration

James M. Thomas
p 97
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p97

Effect of Sample Size on Sampling Error: An Experiment for Introductory Analytical Chemistry

Joseph E. Vitt and Royce C. Engstrom
p 99
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p99
History, Education, and Documentation

Research: Science and Education

Effects of Context-Based Laboratory Experiments on Attitudes of Analytical Chemistry Students

David L. Pringle , Julie Henderleiter
p 100
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p100

Constructivism: The Implications for Laboratory Work

Thomas W. Shiland
p 107
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p107
History, Education, and Documentation

A Content Analysis of General Chemistry Laboratory Manuals for Evidence of Higher-Order Cognitive Tasks

Daniel S. Domin
p 109
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p109
History, Education, and Documentation

Students' Self-Assessment in Chemistry Examinations Requiring Higher- and Lower-Order Cognitive Skills

Georgios Tsaparlis , Uri Zoller , Michal Fastow and Aviva Lubezky
p 112
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p112

The Impact of Continuous Instructional Development on Graduate and Undergraduate Students

Susan C. Nurrenbern , Joseph A. Mickiewicz and Joseph S. Francisco
p 114
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p114

Student Active Learning Methods in General Chemistry

Jeffrey Kovac
p 120
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p120
History, Education, and Documentation

Effect of Experience on Retention and Elimination of Misconceptions about Molecular Structure and Bonding

James P. Birk , Martha J. Kurtz
p 124
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p124
History, Education, and Documentation

Gouy, Debye-Hückel, and Fick: Understanding Differential Equations without Solving Them

Robert de Levie
p 129
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p129

A Unified Titration Formula

P. Glaister
p 132
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p132

Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources

Replace Double Replacement

R. Bruce Martin
p 133
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p133

A Common Inorganic Chemistry Textbook Mistake: Incorrect Use of Pairing Energy in Crystal Field Stabilization Energy Expressions

David Tudela
p 134
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p134

Electronic States and Configurations: Visualizing the Difference

Igor Novak
p 135
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p135

A Random Number Model for Beer's Law - Atom Shadowing

R. Scott Daniels
p 138
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p138

JCE Online: Equipment Buyers Guide

Jon L. Holmes
p 142
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p142

Prospectus 1999

Jon L. Holmes and Nancy S. Gettys
p 143
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p143
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Articles

A Coordination Geometry Table

Francisco J. Arnaiz
p 28
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p28.1
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A Coordination Geometry Table (the authors reply)

Jefferey S. Moore , D. Venkataraman and Keith A. Hirsch
p 28
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p28.2
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Cut-Out Molecular Models

Ana Luisa Silva , Carla Fernandes , Olivier Wasterlain , Sandra Costa and Ana Maria. Mendes
p 28
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p28.3
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Kinetics Lesson for College Deans

Fred Hadley
p 29
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 1999 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p29
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