Table of Contents

June 1999
Volume 76, Issue 6
Pages 725-871
About the Cover:

The cover shows textures of liquid crystals in the nematic phase which have orientational order, but no positional order (see pages 739-740). Lee Y. Park discussed liquid crystals and their applications as part of Pushing the Rainbow: Frontiers in Color Chemistry, one of two presidential events on color and light at the ACS National Meeting in Anaheim, CA. A summary of both sessions appears on pages 737-746.

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Chemical Education Today

Learning Is a Do-It-Yourself Activity

John W. Moore
p 725
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p725
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Especially for High School Teachers

J. Emory Howell
p 727
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p727
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News from Online: A Spectrum of Color

Carolyn Sweeney Judd
p 728
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p728

Summer Reading

Jeff Kovac and Dick Pagni , Ed Walsh , Hal Harris
p 730
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Commentary)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p730
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Should We Put Observations First?

Mansoor Niaz
p 734
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Commentary)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p734
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Secretary's Report, April 1999

Jerry L. Sarquis
p 736
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p736

Photochemistry and Pinhole Photography: An Interdisciplinary Experiment

Angeliki A. Rigos and Kevin Salemme
p 736A
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Activity)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p736A

Pushing the Rainbow: Frontiers in Color Chemistry; Light and Color in Chemistry- Report on Two American Chemical Society Presidential Events

Nancy S. Gettys
p 737
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p737

The Chemical Education Program, Anaheim ACS Meeting

Craig Bowen , Tom Wildeman , Richard Schwenz
p 747
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p747

Snippets

Kathryn R. Williams
p 750
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p750

The National Science Board on Science Education

Donald J. Wink
p 751
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p751

New Quant: A Quantitative Analysis Laboratory Curriculum Using an Analyzed Complex Matrix

R. Cameron Dorey , Jeffrey A. Draves and Conrad L. Stanitski
p 752
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p752

News and Announcements

JCE staff
p 753
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (News and Announcements)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p753
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Acid Rain Demonstration

Charles L. Braun
p 757
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p757.1
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Acid Rain Demonstration (the author replies)

H. D. Gesser
p 757
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p757.2
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An Introduction to Hydrogen Bonding (Jeffrey, George A.)

Michael J. Minch
p 759
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p759.1
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Natural Product Chemistry: A Mechanistic, Biosynthetic and Ecological Approach, Second Edition (Torssell, Kurt B. G.)

Pamela K. Kerrigan
p 759
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p759.2
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Biochemistry (Stenesh, Jochanan)

Arthur Glasfeld
p 760
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p760
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Fundamentals of Inorganic Chemistry: An Introductory Text for Degree Course Studies (Barrett, Jack; Malati, Mounir A.)

Jay H. Worrell
p 761
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p761.1
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Statistical Mechanics: Fundamentals and Modern Applications (Wilde, Richard E.; Singh, Surjit)

C. Michael McCallum
p 761
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p761.2
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A Practical Guide for the Preparation of Specimens for X-ray Fluorescence and X-ray Diffraction Analysis (Buhrke, V. E.; Jenkins, R.; Smith, D. K.)

Reuben Rudman
p 762
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p762
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Waters Symposium

Development and Proliferation of Radioimmunoassay Technology

Rosalyn S. Yalow
p 767
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p767.1

The Annual James L. Waters Symposium at Pittcon-Preamble

J. F. Coetzee
p 767
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p767.2

Immunoassay, DNA Analysis, and Other Ligand Binding Assay Techniques: From Electropherograms to Multiplexed, Ultrasensitive Microarrays on a Chip

Roger P. Ekins
p 769
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p769
History, Education, and Documentation

Homogeneous Immunoassays: Historical Perspective and Future Promise

Edwin F. Ullman
p 781
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p781
History, Education, and Documentation

Radioimmunoassay of Gastrointestinal Hormones

Eugene Straus
p 788
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p788
History, Education, and Documentation

The Impact on Business of Research in the Rapidly Maturing Diagnostics Industry

Anders Weber
p 790
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p790
History, Education, and Documentation

Chemistry Everyday for Everyone

Both Nylon and PET Fibers Burn Continuously under Atmospheric Conditions

Shouei Fujishige , Nagako Maebashi and Mizue Miyauchi
p 793
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p793

In the Classroom

Theme-Based Exams in General Chemistry

Carmela Amato-Wierda
p 795
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p795
History, Education, and Documentation

Bird-in-the-Hand Method for Determination of Absolute Configuration in Fischer Projections

Edward Siloac
p 798
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p798
History, Education, and Documentation

A New Method To Convert the Fischer Projection of a Monosaccharide to the Haworth Projection

Qing-zhi Zhang and Shen-song Zhang
p 799
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p799
History, Education, and Documentation

The Genius of Slater's Rules

James L. Reed
p 802
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p802
History, Education, and Documentation

Estimates of Precision in a Standard Additions Analysis

Graham R. Bruce and Paramjit S. Gill
p 805
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p805
History, Education, and Documentation

Chemical Waste Management for the Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator

Steven W. Zimmer
p 808
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p808
History, Education, and Documentation

In the Laboratory

Capillary Electrophoretic Quantitative Analysis of Anions in Drinking Water

Stéphane Demay , Alexia Martin-Girardeau and Marie-France Gonnord
p 812
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p812
History, Education, and Documentation

Separation and Quantification of Simple Ions by Capillary Zone Electrophoresis. A Modern Undergraduate Instrumentation Laboratory

Mary Boyce
p 815
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p815
History, Education, and Documentation

Micellular Electrokinetic Capillary Chromatography in the Undergraduate Curriculum: Separation and Identification of the Amino Acid Residues in an Unknown Dipeptide Using FMOC Derivatization

Timothy G. Strein , James L. Poechmann and Mark Prudenti
p 820
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p820
History, Education, and Documentation

A Puzzling Alcohol Dehydration Reaction Solved by GC-MS Analysis

Michael W. Pelter and Rebecca M. Macudzinski
p 826
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p826
History, Education, and Documentation

Preparation and Identification of Benzoic Acids and Benzamides: An Organic "Unknown" Lab

Douglass F. Taber , Jade D. Nelson and John P. Northrop
p 828
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p828

A Simple and Convenient Method for Generation and NMR Observation of Stable Carbanions: An Advanced Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment

Hamid S. Kasmai
p 830
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p830

Optimizing Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Using Sequential Simplex Optimization

Richard J. Stolzberg
p 834
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p834
History, Education, and Documentation

The Electronic Absorption Spectrum of Molecular Iodine: A New Fitting Procedure for the Physical Chemistry Laboratory

Christopher J. Pursell and Lambert Doezema
p 839
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p839
History, Education, and Documentation

The Iodine Spectrum: A New Look at an Old Topic

Deborah Sauder , Theresa Julia Zielinski , George M. Shalhoub , Roland Stout , Marcy Hamby Towns , George Long
p 841
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p841

Research: Science and Education

Mean Field Theory of Phase Transitions

Jurgen M. Honig
p 848
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p848
History, Education, and Documentation

Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources

An Analysis of College Chemistry Textbooks As Sources of Misconceptions and Errors in Electrochemistry

Michael J. Sanger and Thomas J. Greenbowe
p 853
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p853
History, Education, and Documentation

Uncovering Oscillations, Complexity, and Chaos in Chemical Kinetics Using Mathematica

M. M. C. Ferreira , W. C. Ferreira Jr., A. C. S. Lino and M. E. G. Porto
p 861
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p861
History, Education, and Documentation

Deconvolution of Gas Chromatograms with Excel

James V. Arena and Tuan M. Leu
p 867
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p867

A Virtual Curve-Fitting Instrument for Interactive Analysis of Excimer Dynamics

Giles Henderson
p 868
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p868
History, Education, and Documentation

Molecular Modeling

Jon L. Holmes
p 871
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p871

Articles

Gelatinous Aluminum Hydroxide

David Tudela
p 756
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p756.1
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Gelatinous Aluminum Hydroxide (the author replies)

Edward Koubek
p 756
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p756.2
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Correction to The Bobbing Bird

Hyman D. Gesser
p 757
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Addition/Correction)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p757.3
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The Methane Balloon

Walter H. Corkern and Elvin Hughes Jr.
p 794
Publication Date (Web): June 1, 1999 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed076p794
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