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Mission Statement
Products of Chemistry articles should provide background or supplementary information for instructors of high school, college, or university chemistry courses. The feature deals with the chemistry of broad classes and types of materials or substances as well as specific compounds or various commercial products that play important roles in everyday modern life that are-or deserve to be-recognizable to high school, college, or university students. Articles about these products may discuss their manufacture or synthesis; the chemical principles underlying their action, properties, or use; how they may be used to teach chemical concepts; methods for modifying them for safe but unusual purposes; and ideas for incorporating them as topics in chemistry courses. Inclusion of experiments and demonstrations involving the products may be included.
Articles already published have dealt with polymers and polymer blends, elastomers, plastics, paints, toys, food additives or preservatives, glass, petroleum additives, deodorants and antiperspirants, fibers, fermentation, scientific toys, photography, pheromones, biocatalysts, air bags, photoionic supermolecules, intelligent materials, drugs from plants, semiconductors, carbonless carbon paper, ocean chemistry, dental filling materials, organic vapor sensors, microorganisms in synthetic organic chemistry, and drug metabolism. These articles were written by authors from nine different countries, and the feature has a pronounced international flavor. For typical articles see "Wallace Hume Carothers and Nylon, The First Completely Synthetic Fiber" (1988, 65, 803), "Rayon; The First Semi-Synthetic Fiber Product" (1993, 70, 242), "Chemical Magic: Polymers from a Nonexistent Monomer" (1994, 71, 132), "The Origins of the Use of Antioxidants in Foods" (1996, 73, 158), "Superabsorbent Polymers: an Idea Whose Time Has Come" (1996, 73, 512).
"Photoionic Supermolecules: Mobilizing the Charge and Light Brigades" (1997, 74, 53),
"Communicative Polymers: The Basis for Development of Intelligent Materials" (1997, 74, 703),
"Exploring the Ocean-Stating the Case for Chemistry" (1999, 76, 1075),
"The Chemistry of Modern Dental Filling Materials" (1999, 76, 1497),
"Using Microorganisms in Synthetic Organic Chemistry," 2000, 77, 344).
Prospective authors are urged to contact the feature editor before submitting finished articles to the Madison editorial office.
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