Table of Contents

February 2009
Volume 86, Issue 2
Pages 139-256

About the Cover:

Chemists Celebrate Earth Day. In celebration of Earth Day on April 22, 2009, the American Chemical Society's theme is "Air—The Sky's the Limit". See articles throughout this issue on atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry, and green chemistry. The cover features the painting "Cygnus Loop" by Paige Pitt. This acrylic on canvas of a supernova explosion was modelled after a photo taken from the Hubble Space Telescope (NASA). The article by Lynn Diener (a science teacher) and Jordan Acker Anderson (an art teacher) discusses how they collaborated on an assignment to engage art students in a visual conversation about science.

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Chemical Education Today

Documenting the Value of Education

John W. Moore
p 139
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p139
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"The Sky's the Limit" Thinking

Erica K. Jacobsen
p 141
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Editorial)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p141
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No More Pencils, No More Books

Richard N. Zare
p 142
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Commentary)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p142
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Charting a Course for Chemistry Education

Richard N. Zare , Mary M. Kirchhoff
p 145
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p145

Research Advances

Angela G. King
p 146
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p146

Robert Boyle: The Founder of Modern Chemistry

Kathryn R. Williams
p 148
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p148

Nature: Our Atmosphere in the Year of Planet Earth

Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon C. Cannon
p 150
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p150

News from Online: Stratospheric Chemistry

Lynn Diener
p 153
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p153

A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration

Lynn Diener , Jordan Acker Anderson
p 156
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p156

JCE Resources for Chemistry and the Atmosphere: An Update

Erica K. Jacobsen
p 158
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p158

National Historic Chemical Landmarks: A Resource To Make Chemistry Real

Erica K. Jacobsen , Judah Ginsberg
p 161
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p161

Platinum(IV) Chloride

Jay A. Young
p 162
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p162

Platinum

Jay A. Young
p 163
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p163

News and Announcements

JCE staff
p 164
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (News and Announcements)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p164
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Teaching and Learning Guiding Principles

Liberato Cardellini
p 169
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p169.1
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Author Reply: Teaching and Learning Guiding Principles

J. Dudley Herron
p 169
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Letter)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p169.2
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Write Like a Chemist: A Guide and Resource (Marin S. Robinson, Fredericka L. Stoller, Molly S. Costanza-Robinson, and James K. Jones)

Jeffrey Kovac
p 170
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p170
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Nuts and Bolts of Chemical Education Research (Diane M. Bunce and Renée S. Cole, eds.)

Jeffrey Kovac
p 171
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Book and Media Review)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p171
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Chemistry for Everyone

Teaching Chemistry Using October Sky

James G. Goll , Lindsay J. Wilkinson and Dolores M. Snell
p 177
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p177

Looking Up

Bernadette A. Caldwell
p 180
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Communication)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p180

Connecting Element Names with the Names of U.S. Towns

Nicholas C. Thomas
p 181
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p181

In the Classroom

Fluorine Compounds and Dental Health: Applications of General Chemistry Topics

Gabriel Pinto
p 185
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p185

Gadolinium: Central Metal of the Lanthanoids

Michael Laing
p 188
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p188

Relating Functional Groups to the Periodic Table

Jef Struyf
p 190
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p190

A Simple Algorithm To Convert Complex Organic Molecules into Their Straight-Chain Conformations

Dwayne A. Dias
p 194
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p194

A Computational Experiment of the Endo versus Exo Preference in a Diels–Alder Reaction

Christopher N. Rowley and Tom K. Woo , Nick J. Mosey
p 199
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Lab-Expt)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p199

Illustrating the Concept of Sparingly Soluble Salts Using Various Copper Compounds. A Classroom Demonstration

Daniel W. O'Sullivan and Collier C. Crouch , David B. Green
p 202
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Demo)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p202

In the Laboratory

Revisiting History: Encountering Iodine Then and Now. A General Chemistry Laboratory To Observe Iodine from Seaweed

M. Farooq Wahab
p 206
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p206

Using Soda Cans To Teach Physical Science Students about Density

Mark M. LaPorte , Michael J. Sanger and Teari C. Humphreys
p 209
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p209

Greening Up Auto Part Manufacturing: A Collaboration between Academia and Industry

Kristi A. Kneas , Drew L. Armstrong , Alice R. Brank , Amanda L. Johnson , Chelsea A. Kissinger and Adam R. Mabe , Özge Sezer and Mike Fontinell
p 212
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p212

Remediation of Acid Mine Drainage with Sulfate Reducing Bacteria

Laurel A. Schaider , James F. Hauri
p 216
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p216

Measurement of Ozone Emission and Particle Removal Rates from Portable Air Purifiers

Stephen A. Mang , Maggie L. Walser and Sergey A. Nizkorodov , John M. Laux
p 219
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p219

Proximate Analysis of Coal

Craig J. Donahue and Elizabeth A. Rais
p 222
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p222

How Heavy Is a Balloon? Using the Ideal Gas Law

Bettie Obi Johnson and Henry Van Milligan
p 224A
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Activity)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p224A

Exploration of SO2 Scrubbers: An Environmental Chemistry Project

Amber L. Schilling , Phyllis A. Leber and Claude H. Yoder
p 225
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p225

Microwave-Assisted Carbonyl Chemistry for the Undergraduate Laboratory

C. Oliver Kappe , S. Shaun Murphree
p 227
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p227

The Self-Assembly Properties of a Benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide Derivative

Patrick J. M. Stals , Jan F. Haveman , Anja R. A. Palmans and Albertus P. H. J. Schenning
p 230
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p230

Synthesis and Hydrogenation of Disubstituted Chalcones. A Guided-Inquiry Organic Chemistry Project

Christina Noring Hammond , Paul F. Schatz , Jerry R. Mohrig , Tammy A. Davidson
p 234
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p234

Research: Science and Education

Design and Validation of an Instrument To Assess Metacognitive Skillfulness in Chemistry Problem Solving

Melanie M. Cooper and Santiago Sandi-Urena
p 240
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p240

pH Basics

Francesco Scagnolari , Bruno Lunelli
p 246
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p246

Towards "Inverse" Character Tables? A One-Step Method for Decomposing Reducible Representations

J.-Y. Piquemal , R. Losno and B. Ancian
p 251
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Article)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p251

On the Web

Visualization Tools for Organic Chemistry

Jennifer L. Muzyka
p 254
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p254
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Chem Map: A Geographic Information System Web Page for Chemical Education

Benjamin R. Ayres and Scott M. Reed , William Garrick , Savyasaachi Murthy , Nehal Sanghvi and Amit Kulkarni
p 255
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p255
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Molecular Models of Volatile Organic Compounds

William F. Coleman
p 256
Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2009 (Tech Report)
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p256
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