Table of Contents

January 2001
Volume 78, Issue 1
Pages 7-135
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Chemical Education Today

Safety Pays

John W. Moore
p 7
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p7
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Nobel Prizes, 2000

John W. Moore
p 8
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p8

Especially for High School Teachers

J. Emory Howell
p 9
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p9
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Anniversaries: 2001

Paul F. Schatz
p 10
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p10

Thermite Welding Gets High School Chemistry Class on Track

Anthony L. Feliu
p 15
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p15

Cognitive Requirements of Open-Ended Learning Environments

William R. Robinson
p 20
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p20

The Science Teacher: Winter Break 2001

Steve Long
p 22
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p22

The Revised NSF Web Site

Donald J. Wink
p 24
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p24

Someone Thought It Was Grape Juice!

Jay A. Young
p 25
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p25

Infrared Spectroscopy in the General Chemistry Lab

Margaret A. Hill
p 26
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p26

News and Announcements

JCE staff
p 29
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (News and Announcements)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p29
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Hybridization and Structural Properties

Victor M. S. Gil
p 31
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p31.1
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Dog with Ball Joins Flying Bird

Richard S. Treptow
p 31
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p31.2
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The Energy Profile for Rotation about the C-C Bond in Substituted Ethanes

Victor M. S. Gil
p 32
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p32.1
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Correction to Understanding Enzyme Inhibition

Raymond S. Ochs
p 32
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Addition/Correction)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p32.2
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Physical Chemistry, 2nd Edition (Berry, R. Stephen; Rice, Stuart A.; Ross, John)

Norman C. Craig
p 33
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p33.1
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Organic Reaction Mechanisms. Selected Problems and Solutions, 1st Edition (Groutas, William C.)

Richard Pagni
p 33
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p33.2
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Analytical Instrumentation—Performance Characteristics and Quality (Currell, Graham)

Jack K. Steehler
p 34
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p34
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Practical Capillary Electrophoresis, 2nd Edition (Weinberger, Robert)

Luanne Tilstra
p 35
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p35
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The Big Bang: A History of Explosives (Brown, G. I.)

Jeffrey Kovac
p 36
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p36.1
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Chemistry for Everyone

Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

JCE staff
p 40A
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Activity)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p40A

Teaching about Flame Retardants. A Joint Israeli-Dutch Project

Wobbe de Vos , Miri Kesner
p 41
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p41

Disappearing-reappearing rabbit trick: A new twist to an old liquid nitrogen demonstration

Elaine K. Haub
p 46
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p46
History, Education, and Documentation

In the Classroom

Chemiluminescence of Tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II): A glowing experience

Ed Bolton and Mark M. Richter
p 47
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p47
History, Education, and Documentation

Hands-On Discovery of Mirror Planes

Deborah A. Moore , José E. Cortés-Figueroa
p 49
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p49
History, Education, and Documentation

Incorporating a Substantial Writing Assignment into Organic Chemistry: Library Research, Peer Review, and Assessment

Cynthia L. Nicotera , Ivan A. Shibley Jr. and Louis K. Milakofsky
p 50
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p50

Writing and Computing across the USM Chemistry Curriculum

Nancy R. Gordon , Thomas A. Newton , Gale Rhodes , John S. Ricci , Richard G. Stebbins and Henry J. Tracy
p 53
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p53
History, Education, and Documentation

The Data-Driven Classroom

S. R. Bondeson , J. G. Brummer and S. M. Wright
p 56
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p56
History, Education, and Documentation

A Quantum Mechanical Game of Craps: Teaching the Superposition Principle Using a Familiar Classical Analog to a Quantum Mechanical System

Patrick E. Fleming
p 57
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p57
History, Education, and Documentation

In the Laboratory

Solving a Mock Arsenic-Poisoning Case Using Atomic Spectroscopy

Matthew A. Tarr
p 61
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p61
History, Education, and Documentation

Modification of Small-Scale One-Pot Reactions to an Inquiry-Based Laboratory Exercise

C. Jayne Wilcox
p 62
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p62
History, Education, and Documentation

Suggested Modifications to a Distillation-Free Solvent Purification System

Peter J. Alaimo , David W. Peters , John Arnold and Robert G. Bergman
p 64
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p64
History, Education, and Documentation

An Efficient and Inexpensive Apparatus for Hot Filtration

Hermínio P. Diogo , Carlos C. Romão
p 65
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p65

Organic-Solvent-Free Phase-Transfer Oxidation of Alcohols Using Hydrogen Peroxide

Martin Hulce and David W. Marks
p 66
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p66
History, Education, and Documentation

Determination of the Regiochemistry of Disubstituted Arenes Generated by Addition of a Carbanion to the (η6-Anisole)Cr(CO)3 Complex

Ashfaq A. Bengali , Cindy Samet and Samantha B. Charlton
p 68
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p68
History, Education, and Documentation

Synthesis and Spectroscopic Analysis of a Cyclic Acetal: A Dehydration Performed in Aqueous Solution

David M. Collard , Adolphus G. Jones and Robert M. Kriegel
p 70
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p70
History, Education, and Documentation

Synthesis of Methyl 2,3,5-Tri-O-benzoyl-α[alpha]-d-arabinofuranoside in the Organic Laboratory

Christopher S. Callam and Todd L. Lowary
p 73
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p73
History, Education, and Documentation

Synthesis of a Partially Protected Azidodeoxy Sugar. A Project Suitable for the Advanced Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory

Peter Norris , Scott Freeze and Christopher J. Gabriel
p 75
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p75
History, Education, and Documentation

The Discovery-Oriented Approach to Organic Chemistry. 4. Epoxidation of p-Methoxy-trans-β[beta]-methylstyrene: An Exercise in NMR and IR Spectroscopy for Sophomore Organic Laboratories

Rebecca S. Centko and Ram S. Mohan
p 77
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p77
History, Education, and Documentation

The Discovery-Oriented Approach to Organic Chemistry. 5. Stereochemistry of E2 Elimination: Elimination of cis- and trans-2-Methylcyclohexyl Tosylate

Marcus E. Cabay , Brad J. Ettlie , Adam J. Tuite , Kurt A. Welday and Ram S. Mohan
p 79
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p79
History, Education, and Documentation

Determination of the Position of the Conformational Equilibrium of a Trans 1,2-Disubstituted Cyclohexane by NMR Spectroscopy. An Experiment in Physical Organic Chemistry for Undergraduate Students

Andrei G. Kutateladze and Joseph M. Hornback
p 81
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p81
History, Education, and Documentation

Linkage Isomerization by Two-Dimensional 31P Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. An Undergraduate Inorganic Laboratory Experiment

Ahmad M. Al-Ajlouni , Rathindra N. Bose and Erika Volckova
p 83
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p83

Synthesis of [RuCl2(dppb)(PPh3)] and Identification of the cis- and trans-[RuCl2(dppb)(phen)] Geometrical Isomers via 31P{1H} NMR Spectroscopy. An Undergraduate Experiment for Inorganic Chemistry

Salete L. Queiroz , Márcio P. de Araujo , and Alzir A. Batista , Kenneth S. MacFarlane and Brian R. James
p 87
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p87
History, Education, and Documentation

An Electrochemical Experiment to Monitor the Isomerization of trans- to cis-[RuCl2(dppb)(phen)]. An Undergraduate Cyclic Voltammetry Experiment for Inorganic Chemistry

Salete L. Queiroz , Márcio P. de Araujo , and Alzir A. Batista , Kenneth S. MacFarlane and Brian R. James
p 89
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p89
History, Education, and Documentation

Indirect Potentiometric Titration of Fe(III) with Ce(IV) by Gran's Method

Maria da Conceição Silva Barreto , Luciana de Lucena Medeiros and Paulo César de Holanda Furtado
p 91
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p91

Research: Science and Education

Student Active Learning Methods in Physical Chemistry

Robert J. Hinde and Jeffrey Kovac
p 93
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p93
History, Education, and Documentation

An Investigation of the Factors Influencing Student Performance in Physical Chemistry

Gayle Nicoll and Joseph S. Francisco
p 99
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p99
History, Education, and Documentation

An Introduction to the Understanding of Solubility

Rubin Battino , Trevor M. Letcher
p 103
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p103

The Solubility Rules: Why Are All Acetates Soluble?

William G. Van Der Sluys
p 111
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p111
History, Education, and Documentation

The Strength of the Hydrohalic Acids

Roland Schmid and Arzu M. Miah
p 116
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p116
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Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources

WebSpectra: Online NMR and IR Spectra for Students

Craig A. Merlic , Barry C. Fam and Michael M. Miller
p 118
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p118
History, Education, and Documentation

Teaching 1H NMR Spectrometry Using Computer Modeling

Yoichi Habata and Sadatoshi Akabori
p 121
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p121
History, Education, and Documentation

Ab Initio Calculations of NMR Parameters for Diatomic Molecules. An Exercise in Computational Chemistry

David L. Bryce , Roderick E. Wasylishen
p 124
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p124
History, Education, and Documentation

A Short History of the Chemical Shift

Samuel G. Levine
p 133
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p133
History, Education, and Documentation

Organometallic Computational Exercise: Semiempirical Molecular Orbital Calculations on (C6H6)Cr(CO)3 and (B3N3H6)Cr(CO)3

James F. O'Brien , Daniel T. Haworth
p 134
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p134
History, Education, and Documentation

Prospectus 2001

Jon L. Holmes and Nancy S. Gettys
p 135
Publication Date (Web): January 1, 2001 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p135
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