Table of Contents

December 2009
Volume 86, Issue 12
Pages 1355-1471
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Precipitation of Lead(II) Iodide from Sodium Iodide. The sequence of images on the cover shows 0.2 M aqueous sodium iodide, NaI, solution being added from a buret to 0.1 M aqueous lead(II) nitrate, Pb(NO3)2, solution in a crystallizing dish. The beautiful yellow precipitate is lead(II) iodide, PbI2(s). In their article, Chandrasegaran, Treagust, and Mocerino use this chemical reaction and others to examine how emphasizing multiple levels of representation enhances students’ understandings of the changes occurring during chemical reactions.

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Chemical Education Today

Celebrating a Volume and Heralding the Next

Norbert J. Pienta
p 1355
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1355
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Teaching Is a Privilege

Laura E. Slocum , Erica K. Jacobsen
p 1357
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1357
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Research Advances. Catch and Release; Mini Mass Spectrometer; Drug Delivery by Magnetic Propulsion

Angela G. King
p 1358
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1358
History, Education, and Documentation

The Origin of the Meker and Tirrill Laboratory Burners

William B. Jensen
p 1362
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1362

My Favorite Element. Francium: Uranium's Daughter, Perey's Discovery

Mary Virginia Orna
p 1364
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Commentary)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1364
History, Education, and Documentation
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JCE in Transition. News for Authors, Reviewers, and Subscribers

JCE staff
p 1365
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1365

News and Announcements

JCE staff
p 1367
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (News and Announcements)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1367
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Incorrect Mathematical Operators in a Two-Dimensional Quantum Problem

Ranjan Das
p 1370
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1370
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Response to Incorrect Mathematical Operators in a Two-Dimensional Quantum Problem

Mark Ellison
p 1371
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1371
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Molecules That Changed the World (K. C. Nicolaou and T. Montagnon)

Luis D. Montes
p 1372
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1372
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Theo Gray’s Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home—But Probably Shouldn’t (Theodore Gray)

Robert E. Buntrock
p 1373
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1373
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Connecting with JCE

p 1376
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1376

The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe (Theodore Gray)

Cheryl Baldwin Frech
p 1374
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1374.1
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Landmarks in Organo-Transition Metal Chemistry—A Personal View (Profiles in Inorganic Chemistry Series) (Helmut Werner)

Kenneth M. Nicholas
p 1374
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1374.2
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Chemistry for Everyone

Weapons of Mass Destruction: It Is All about Chemistry

Jessica Epstein
p 1377
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1377
History, Education, and Documentation

In the Classroom

Inexpensive, Near-Infrared Imaging of Artwork Using a Night-Vision Webcam for Chemistry-of-Art Courses

Gregory D. Smith , Elizabeth Nunan , Claire Walker and Dan Kushel
p 1382
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1382
History, Education, and Documentation

New Bouncing Curved Arrow Technique for the Depiction of Organic Mechanisms

Andrei R. Straumanis , Suzanne M. Ruder
p 1389
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1389
History, Education, and Documentation

A Method for Writing Open-Ended Curved Arrow Notation Questions for Multiple-Choice Exams and Electronic-Response Systems

Andrei R. Straumanis , Suzanne M. Ruder
p 1392
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1392

An Integrated, Statistical Molecular Approach to the Physical Chemistry Curriculum

Stephen F. Cartier
p 1397
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1397
History, Education, and Documentation

Interaction of Simple Ions with Water: Theoretical Models for the Study of Ion Hydration

Oscar N. Ventura , Jorge S. Gancheff and Carlos Kremer
p 1403
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1403

In the Laboratory

Quantifying the Electron-Donating Strength of Phosphine Ligands

Ashley L. Morris and John T. York
p 1408
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1408
History, Education, and Documentation

Synthesis and Characterization of Transition-Metal Complexes Containing 1,1’-Bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene

Chip Nataro and Stephanie M. Fosbenner
p 1412
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1412
History, Education, and Documentation

The Trans Effect: A Guided-Inquiry Experiment for Upper-Division Inorganic Chemistry

Janet L. Shaw , Christopher R. Dockery , Scott E. Lewis , Lindsay Harris and Richard Bettis
p 1416
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1416
History, Education, and Documentation

Synthesis of Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) Enzyme Mimetics. A Bioinorganic Laboratory Experiment

Graziella Vecchio and Valeria Lanza
p 1419
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1419
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The Preparation of Allyl Phenyl Ether and 2-Allylphenol Using the Williamson Ether Synthesis and Claisen Rearrangement

Elizabeth M. Sanford , Christina C. Lis and Nikolas R. McPherson
p 1422
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1422
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Monitoring the Nitroxide-Mediated Polymerization of Styrene Using Gel Permeation Chromatography and Proton NMR

Eric S. Tillman , Nathan D. Contrella and Joshua G. Leasure
p 1424
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1424
History, Education, and Documentation

Research: Science and Education

Surveying Students' Attitudes and Perceptions toward Guided-Inquiry and Open-Inquiry Laboratories

Suparna Chatterjee , Vickie M. Williamson , Kathleen McCann and M. Larry Peck
p 1427
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1427
History, Education, and Documentation

Emphasizing Multiple Levels of Representation To Enhance Students' Understandings of the Changes Occurring during Chemical Reactions

Mauro Mocerino , A. L. Chandrasegaran and David F. Treagust
p 1433
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1433

Teaching Molecular Diffusion Using an Inquiry Approach. Diffusion Activities in a Secondary School Inquiry-Learning Community

Lisette van Rens and Joop van der Schee , Albert Pilot
p 1437
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1437
History, Education, and Documentation

Kinetic versus Static Visuals for Facilitating College Students' Understanding of Organic Reaction Mechanisms in Chemistry

Abdulwali H. Aldahmash , Michael R. Abraham
p 1442
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1442
History, Education, and Documentation

Assessment of Chemistry Anxiety in a Two-Year College

Bozena Barbara Widanski , Wanda C. McCarthy
p 1447
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1447

A Simple Spreadsheet Program for the Calculation of Lattice-Site Distributions

John G. McCaffrey
p 1450
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1450
History, Education, and Documentation

Equations of State and Phase Diagrams of Ammonia

Leslie Glasser
p 1457
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1457
History, Education, and Documentation

Ion Pairs or Neutral Molecule Adducts? Cooperativity in Hydrogen Bonding

Roger L. DeKock , Laura A. Schipper , Stephanie C. Dykhouse , Lee P. Heeringa and Benjamin M. Brandsen
p 1459
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1459
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The Proof Is in the Calculation

Randall J. Wildman
p 1465
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1465

On the Web

Fostering Creativity and Learning Using Instructional Symbolic Mathematics Documents

Theresa Julia Zielinski
p 1466
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1466
History, Education, and Documentation
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Molecule Models of Chemical Weapons and Warfare Agents

William F. Coleman
p 1470
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1470
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Information for Volume 86, 2009 of the Journal of Chemical Education

p 1471
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1471

Conventional Entropies and the Third Law of Thermodynamics

Theresa Julia Zielinski , Todd M. Hamilton
p 1468
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1468.1
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Intermolecular Interactions: Dipole–Dipole, Dipole–Induced Dipole, and London Dispersion Forces

Masayuki Shibata , Thomas S. Kuntzleman
p 1469
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1469.1
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Effect of Activity Coefficients on Excess Functions and Phase Equilibria

Inmaculada Suárez and Baudilio Coto
p 1468
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1468.2
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Rotational States of Carbon Monoxide

Theresa Julia Zielinski , David M. Hanson
p 1469
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2009 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p1469.2
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