Table of Contents

July 2000
Volume 77, Issue 7
Pages 805-936
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Chemical Education Today

Education: Commodity, Come-On, or Commitment?

John W. Moore
p 805
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p805
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Especially for High School Teachers

J. Emory Howell
p 807
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p807
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News from Online: Learning Communities

Carolyn Sweeney Judd
p 808
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p808

Nature: Cleaner Fuels for the Future

Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon Cannon
p 810
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p810

Glass—Sand + Imagination

Kenneth E. Kolb and Doris K. Kolb
p 812
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p812

How Does One Become a Chemist?

Máximo Barón
p 817
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p817

Lessons for the 21st Century: 1999 James Flack Norris Award, sponsored by ACS Northeast Section

J. J. Lagowski
p 818
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Commentary)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p818
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Chem 13 News: Ways to Teach in the Classroom and Beyond

Kathy Thorsen
p 824
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p824

The Science Teacher: Summer 2000 Reading

Steve Long
p 825
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p825

Chemistry, Teaching, and WebCT

Renee Cole
p 826
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p826

News and Announcements

JCE staff
p 827
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (News and Announcements)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p827
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Solid NaHSO3 Does Not Exist

David Tudela
p 830
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p830.1
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Correction

Bruce D. Beaver
p 830
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Addition/Correction)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p830.2
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150 and More Basic NMR Experiments: A Practical Course, 2nd Edition (Braun, S.; Kalinowski, H.-O.; Berger, S.)

Nancy Mills
p 831
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p831.1
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Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (Crosby, Donald G.)

Paul Tomboulian
p 831
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p831.2
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Laboratory Handbook for General Chemistry (Griswold, Norman E.; Neidig, H. A.; Spencer, James N.; Stanitski, Conrad)

Nancy Gordon
p 833
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p833.1
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Properties of Materials (White, Mary Anne)

Richard W. Schaeffer
p 833
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p833.2
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Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs: 67 Digestible Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life (Schwarcz, Joe)

Jay Labinger
p 834
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p834.1
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Teacher's Tools AP Chemistry [CD-ROM]

Deborah McCool
p 834
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p834.2
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ChemSkill Builder 2000, Version 6.1 [CD-ROM] (Spain, James D.; Peters, Harold J.)

Wendy L. Keeney-Kennicutt
p 835
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p835
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Chemistry for Everyone

Artificial Glass—The Versatility of Poly(methyl methacrylate) from Its Early Exploitation to the New Millennium

Michael S. Chisholm
p 841
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p841
History, Education, and Documentation

Glass Doesn't Flow and Doesn't Crystallize and It Isn't a Liquid

Stephen J. Hawkes
p 846
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p846

Weak vs Strong Acids and Bases: The Football Analogy

Todd P. Silverstein
p 849
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p849

Fulminic Acid in the History of Organic Chemistry

Frederick Kurzer
p 851
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p851

The Story of the Wagner-Meerwein Rearrangement

Ludmila Birladeanu
p 858
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p858
History, Education, and Documentation

In the Classroom

A Simple Method of Drawing Stereoisomers from Complicated Symmetrical Structures

A. Haudrechy
p 864
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p864
History, Education, and Documentation

The R/S System: A New and Simple Approach to Determining Ligand Priority and a Unified Method for the Assignment and Correlation of Stereogenic Center Configuration in Diverse Stereoformulas

Dipak K. Mandal
p 866
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p866
History, Education, and Documentation

Chemical Education in Countries of the Former Soviet Union

Evguenii I. Kozliak
p 870
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p870

Solvent Swelling and Optical Rotation Demonstrated on the Overhead Projector

Dean J. Campbell and Sarah B. Rupe
p 876
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p876
History, Education, and Documentation

The M&M superposition principle

John B. Miller , Charles A. Smith
p 879
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p879

Simple and inexpensive classroom demonstrations of nuclear magnetic resonance and magnetic resonance imaging

Joel A. Olson , Karen J. Nordell , Marla A. Chesnik , Clark R. Landis and Arthur B. Ellis , M. S. Rzchowski , George C. Lisensky , S. Michael Condren , James W. Long
p 882
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p882

In the Laboratory

The Discovery Approach to NMR: Development of Chemical-Shift Additivity Tables and Application to Product Identification

Eric Bosch
p 890
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p890

Proton NMR Studies of the Conformation of an Octapeptide. An NMR Exercise for Biophysical Chemistry

Anne Rehart and J. T. Gerig
p 892
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p892

Elucidation of Molecular Structure Using NMR Long-Range Coupling: Determination of the Single Isomer Formed in a Regiospecific Reaction

Samuel Delagrange and Françoise Nepveu
p 895
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p895

Photochemistry of Chloropicrin. A Physical Chemistry Project

T. P. Clemes and K. A. Singmaster , E. A. Wade
p 898
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p898

Chemical Actinometry: Using o-Nitrobenzaldehyde to Measure Lamp Intensity in Photochemical Experiments

Kristine L. Willett and Ronald A. Hites
p 900
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p900
History, Education, and Documentation

A Practical Procedure for the Solid-Phase Synthesis of Azo Compounds in the Undergraduate Organic Laboratory

Cailan Wang , Xiaoxia Wang , Yulu Wang , Xiaoyang Wang and Hong Wang
p 903
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p903

The Synthesis and Analysis of Ammine Complexes of Copper and Silver Sulfate: An Undergraduate Laboratory Project

Steven S. Clareen , Shireen R. Marshall , Kristin E. Price , Margaret B. Royall , Claude H. Yoder and Richard W. Schaeffer
p 904
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p904

Research: Science and Education

Understanding Chemical Shifts in pi-Systems: 13C, 15N, 17O NMR

H. Dahn
p 905
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p905
History, Education, and Documentation

Organic Acids without a Carboxylic Acid Functional Group

G. V. Perez and Alice L. Perez
p 910
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p910

The Role of Metacognition in Learning Chemistry

Dawn Rickey and Angelica M. Stacy
p 915
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p915
History, Education, and Documentation

Simulations for Teaching Chemical Equilibrium

Fiona Rogers , Penelope A. Huddle and Margie W. White
p 920
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p920

Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources

A Straightforward Method to Determine Equilibrium Constants from Spectrophotometric Data

E. Keszei , M. G. Takács and B. Vizkeleti
p 927
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p927

A More Pedagogically Sound Treatment of Beer's Law: A Derivation Based on a Corpuscular-Probability Model

William D. Bare
p 929
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p929

General Chemistry Collection for Students (CD-ROM), Abstract of Special Issue 16, 4th Edition

p 934
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p934
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Lessons for Introductory Chemistry

John S. Martin and Edward V. Blackburn
p 935
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p935
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INQUAL-S

Victor I. Bendall and Sean Johnson
p 936
Publication Date (Web): July 1, 2000 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed077p936
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