Table of Contents

March 2001
Volume 78, Issue 3
Pages 279-423
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Chemical Education Today

Let's Go for It!

John W. Moore
p 279
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DOI: 10.1021/ed078p279
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ACS National Meeting. High School Program

p 280
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DOI: 10.1021/ed078p280

Especially for High School Teachers

J. Emory Howell
p 281
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DOI: 10.1021/ed078p281
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Oxygen

Roald Hoffmann , Carl Djerassi
p 283
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DOI: 10.1021/ed078p283

Program for the Division of Chemical Education: San Diego, March 31-April 5, 2001

Koni Stone , James O. Schreck and Morton Z. Hoffman
p 292
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p292

Undergraduate Program

p 297
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DOI: 10.1021/ed078p297.1

Presidential Events: Professional Development throughout the Career Cycle

p 297
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DOI: 10.1021/ed078p297.2

CHED-Sponsored Workshops

p 299
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DOI: 10.1021/ed078p299

Exploring San Diego

Paul S. Cohen and Brenda H. Cohen
p 301
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DOI: 10.1021/ed078p301

News and Announcements

JCE staff
p 306
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DOI: 10.1021/ed078p306
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Presidential Elections and Significant Digits

Ron DeLorenzo
p 311
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p311.1
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The Photochemical Basis of Cyanotype Photography

Harmon B. Abrahamson
p 311
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p311.2
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Explaining Entropy Pictorially

Scott E. Wood , Rubin Battino
p 311
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p311.3
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Correction to "Synthesis of Methyl 2,3,5-Tri-O-benzoyl-alpha-D-arabinofuranoside in the Organic Laboratory"

Christopher S. Callam and Todd L. Lowary
p 312
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Addition/Correction)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p312.1
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Correction to "Drug Metabolism: The Body's Defense against Chemical Attack"

Andrew V. Stachulski and Martin S. Lennard
p 312
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Addition/Correction)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p312.2
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Rutherford, Scientist Supreme (Campbell, John)

John F. C. Turner
p 313
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DOI: 10.1021/ed078p313
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Advanced Organic Chemistry, Part A: Structure and Mechanism, 4th Edition (Carey, Francis A.; Sundberg, Richard J.)

R. Daniel Libby
p 314
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p314.1
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Nucleic Acids: Structures, Properties, and Functions (Bloomfield, Victor A.; Crothers, Donald M.; Tinoco, Ignacio, Jr.; contributions from Hearst, John E.; Wemmer, David E.; Kollman, Peter A.; Turner, Douglas H.)

John H. Shibata
p 314
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p314.2
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Stop Working and Start Thinking: A Guide to Becoming a SCIENTIST (Cohen, Jack; Medley, Graham) / The Scientific Endeavor: A Primer on Scientific Principles and Practice (Lee, Jeffrey A.)

Jeffrey Kovac
p 315
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p315
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Chemistry for Everyone

Chemistry and Molecular Electronics: New Molecules as Wires, Switches, and Logic Gates

Michael D. Ward
p 321
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p321
History, Education, and Documentation

Burning to Learn: An Introduction to Flame Retardants

JCE staff
p 328A
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Activity)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p328A

In the Classroom

Enchanted glass

Márta Rózsahegyi , Károly Mazák , Sándor Szabó L. , Dezsö Knausz
p 329
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p329

Demonstration of Surface Tension

Andrew J. Rosenthal
p 332
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DOI: 10.1021/ed078p332

The Floating Needle

F. E. Condon Jr., F. E. Condon
p 334
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p334

A Low-Cost Dynamic Surface Tension Meter with a LabVIEW Interface and Its Usefulness in Understanding Foam Formation

Pietre Spanoghe , Jan Cocquyt and Paul Van der Meeren
p 338
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p338

In the Laboratory

An Alternative to Mercury Thermometers

Alexander Nezlin
p 342
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p342

Surface Tension Determination through Capillary Rise and Laser Diffraction Patterns

Teresita Munguia and Charles A. Smith
p 343
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p343

Contact Angles of Aqueous Solutions on Copper Surfaces Bearing Self-Assembled Monolayers

Anthony C. Jones , Vincent S. J. Craig and Tim J. Senden
p 345
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p345

A Simplified Method for the Determination of Critical Micelle Concentration

Hernán Ritacco , José Kovensky and Alicia Fernández-Cirelli , Mariano J. L. Castro
p 347
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p347

Micelles in the Physical/Analytical Chemistry Laboratory. Acid Dissociation of Neutral Red Indicator

Kathryn R. Williams and Loretta H. Tennant
p 349
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p349

Sampling Technique for Organic Solids in IR Spectroscopy: Thin Solid Films as the Method of Choice in Teaching Laboratories

Patty L. Feist
p 351
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p351

Using a Diode Laser Pointer to Count Drops and Automate Titration Systems

Paul Ogren , Steve Nelson and Ian Henry
p 353
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p353

Application of Light Emitting Diodes to Chemical Analysis: Determination of Copper in Water

Juan D. Mozo , Manuel Galan and Emilio Roldán
p 355
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p355

Ion Chromatography: Analysis of Ions in Pond Waters

Kumar Sinniah and Kenneth Piers
p 358
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p358
History, Education, and Documentation

Safe and Efficient Flash Chromatography Equipment for the Research/Teaching Lab

Fritiof Pontén and Ulf Ellervik
p 363
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p363

What Factors Affect the Separation of Substances Using Thin-Layer Chromatography? An Undergraduate Experiment

John J. Nash , Jeanne A. Meyer and Barbara Everson
p 364
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p364

From GC to the NMR: A Simple Semipreparative Gas Chromatography Collection Method Using NMR Tubes

Andrew R. Bressette
p 366
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p366

A Preparative TLC Applicator

Tom Lyons Fisher and Charles P. Gilman
p 367
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p367

A Strategy for Incorporating Hands-On GC-MS into the General Chemistry Lecture and Laboratory Courses

Perry C. Reeves and Kim L. Pamplin
p 368
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p368

Determining the Percent Water in Organic Solvents Using the Zwitterionic Dimroth-Reichardt Betaine ET-30 Dye. An Industrially Relevant Application of a Previously Published Laboratory Experiment

Mark F. Vitha
p 370
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p370
History, Education, and Documentation

Research: Science and Education

Teaching Chemical Technique. A Review of the Literature

Stephen DeMeo
p 373
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p373

Are Micelles and Vesicles Chemical Equilibrium Systems?

Pier Luigi Luisi
p 380
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p380
History, Education, and Documentation

Are Fizzing Drinks Boiling? A Chemical Insight from Chemistry Education Research

Alan Goodwin
p 385
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p385

Electronegativity and Bond Type: Predicting Bond Type

Gordon Sproul
p 387
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p387

Quantum Alchemy: Transmutation of Atomic Orbitals

S. M. Blinder
p 391
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p391

Two Particles in a Box

Igor Novak
p 395
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p395

Tachyons and Quantum Chemistry

Marcin Molski
p 397
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p397

Investigating the Adiabatic Approximation in Quantum Mechanics through the Analysis of Two Coupled Harmonic Oscillators

Anne B. McCoy
p 401
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p401

Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources

A Graphical Approach to the Angular Momentum Schrödinger Equation

Theresa A. Francis , Danny G. Miles Jr.
p 405
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p405

Error Estimates for Fitted Parameters: Application to HCl/DCl Vibrational-Rotational Spectroscopy

Scott E. Feller , Charles F. Blaich
p 409
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p409

Using the Internet to Individualize Laboratory Questions

Steven D. Gammon and Sharon G. Hutchison
p 412
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p412

Physical Chemistry On Line: Interinstitutional Collaboration at a Distance

David Whisnant , Deborah Sauder , Theresa Julia Zielinski , Marcy Towns
p 414
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p414

A Note on "A Thermodynamic Analysis to Explain the Boiling-Point Isotope Effect for Molecular Hydrogen"

Lilia Meza-Montes , Peter Hoffmann-Pinther
p 416
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p416

Logic vs Misconceptions in Undergraduate Organic Textbooks: Radical Stabilities and Bond Dissociation Energies

Andreas A. Zavitsas
p 417
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p417

Which Nitrogen? Combining Computer Modeling with Laboratory Work in Organic Chemistry

Leslie A. Hull
p 420
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p420

Updates

p 422
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p422

Chemistry Comes Alive! Volume 5

Gary Trammell , Jerrold J. Jacobsen , Kristin Johnson and John W. Moore
p 423
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p423
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Product and Service Showcase and Spring ACS National Meeting Aisle by Aisle Guide

p 288
Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2001 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed078p288
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