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April 1996
Vol. 73 No. 4


 General Interest
Josiah Willard Gibbs and Wilhelm Ostwald: A Contrast in Scientific Style 289
Robert J. Deltete and David L. Thorsell
Relative Stabilities and Reactivities of Isolated Versus Conjugated Alkenes: Reconciliation Via a Molecular Orbital Approach295
Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis, Samir B. Hanna, and Nicholas Leventis
Teaching to Enhance Problem Solving: It's More than the Numbers301
Amy J. Phelps
Disconnect by the Numbers: Protocol for the Synthesis of Alkanes304
Michael B. Smith
Anthocyanins: Model Compounds for Learning about More than pH306
Robert Curtright, James A. Rynearson, and John Markwell
On the Way of Introducing Some Basic NMR Aspects: From the Classical and Naive Quantum Models to the Density-Operator Approach310
Juan Carlos Paniagua and Albert Moyano
How to Get a Research Idea and Get Someone to Pay You to Work on It332
Larry L. Miller
Lecturer Perceptions of Student Difficulties in a First-Year Chemistry Course339
Valda Kirkwood and David Symington
Reforming the Visions of High School Chemistry: A Perspective from "Down Under"344
Warren Beasley
Crime in the Classroom: Part II. An Update349
David N. Harpp, James J. Hogan, and James S. Jennings
Development and Evaluation of a Program of Study in Hazardous Materials Management 351
Lawrence Tirri, Bradford Manning, and Brian J. Johnson
A Practical Procedure for Determining Rate Constants in Consecutive First-Order Systems359
Mary Jo Kahley and Michael Novak
An Introduction to Rheology with an Emphasis on Application to Dispersions374
Andrea L. Motyka

 Features
Editorially Speaking
A Decade of Project 2061287
J. J. Lagowski
In This Issue288
Textbook Forum
The Boltzmann Distribution299
Douglas K. Russell
Computer Series
MOLSYM: A Program on Molecular Symmetry and Group Theory318
Luis Vázquez-Vidal
Computer Series
Interfacing Techniques for Instrumental Analysis: An Exercise318
Stephen J. Duffy and Gary W. vanLoon
JCE Software
CAI for Chemistry323
Lesile Glasser, John D. Bradley, George Brink, and Pam van Zyl
JCE Software
COS: Organic Reaction Drills Based Upon Collective Organic Syntheses323
Victor I. Bendall
JCE Software
Beer's Law: A Computerized Experiment324
Jacqueline L. Scott
CIStudio: A Worldwide Web-Based, Interactive Chemical Information Course325
Colette O. Holmes and Joseph T. Warden
NSF Highlights
Take-Home Challenges: Extending Discovery-Based Activities beyond the General Chemistry Classroom337
P. K. Mason and A. M. Sarquis
Tested Demonstrations
A Novel Approach to Teaching Electrochemical Principles354
Paul Krause and Jerry Manion
Tested Demonstrations
Work Done by a Chemical Reaction354
Henry Brouwer
Letters
Letters382
Topics in Chemical Instrumentation
Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectroscopy: Part I. Instrumentation and Spectral InterpretationA82
Steven A. Hofstadler, Ray Bakhtiar, and Richard D. Smith
Reviews
Experimental Organic Chemistry: A Small-Scale Approach, Second EditionA92
reviewed by Philip J. Chenier
Reviews
Organic ChemistryA92
reviewed by John A. Miller

 Secondary School Chemistry
Trading Post
What's a Mole for?309
Sheryl Dominic
Products of Chemistry
The Chemistry behind the Air Bag: High Tech in First-Year Chemistry347
Andreas Madlung
Applications and Analogies
The Size of a Mole348
Miriam Toloudis
Filtrates and Residues
Lightstick Magic: Determination of the Activation Energy with PSL356
Thomas H. Bindel

 Laboratory Experiments
Synthesis and Kinetics of Hydrolysis of 3,5-Dimethyl-N-acetyl-p-benzoquinone Imine: An Undergraduate Laboratory364
Jeanne M. Buccigross, Christa Metz, Lori Elliot, Pamela Becker, Angela S. Earley, Jerry W. Hayes, Michael Novak, and Gayl A. Underwood
Bacterial Toxicity Assessment Using Resazurin Reduction Kinetics: An Undergraduate Toxicity Experiment for the Chemistry-Biology Major368
S. Helliwell and T. J. Harden
Curing of Unsaturated Polyester: Network Formation372
R. F. Toorkey, K. C. Rajanna, and P. K. Sai Prakash
Soxhlet Apparatus and Chromatography Columns Combined380
D. W. Sullins, T. T. Denton, and E. J. Eisenbraun

 Notes
The Bobbing (Drinking) Bird355
H. D. Gesser
Staining TLC Plate Using a Cotton Ball358
Albert W. M. Lee and Zhong Zengpei
A Simple Method for Producing a Mixture of Gaseous HCl and DCl for Measuring their Vibrational-Rotational Spectra367
Barbara A. Lawrence and Andrew W. Zanella
Use of the Disposable IR Card in the Organic Chemistry Laboratory371
Harriet P. Moeur and Robert P. Pinnell
Removing Silicone Greases from Round Bottom Flasks381
Thomas J. Reilly
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