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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1999  > January  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 January 1999
Vol. 76 No. 1

 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Do We Really Value Learning? 5
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
A Year To Make a Difference7
J. Emory Howell
Anniversaries: 19998
Paul F. Schatz
Chemistry Behind the News
Chemistry in the News: 1998 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Medicine12
Jennifer B. Miller
MBRS Programs at East Los Angeles College15
Carcy Chan
Reports from Other Journals
The Science Teacher: Winter Break, 199917
Steve Long
Reports from Other Journals
The Physics Teacher18
Volker B. E. Thomsen
From Past Issues
The Cinderella Story Revisited-Again19
Kathryn R. Williams and Gardiner H. Myers
From Past Issues
From Past Issues: Mission Statement19
Kathryn R. Williams
Commentary
Why Should Anyone Become a Scientist? The Ideal of Science and Its Importance20
Lewyn Li
Teacher Preparation and Enhancement Programs at the NSF Web Site21
Donald J. Wink
NSF Highlights
Incorporation of GC-MS into an Environmental Science Curriculum23
Audrey E. McGowin and George G. Hess
Announcements
News and Announcements25
Letters28
Information Page30
Book and Media Reviews
Molecular Mechanics across Chemistry (by Anthony K. Rappé and Carla J. Casewit)31
G. Craig Hill
Book and Media Reviews
Dendritic Macromolecules: Concepts, Syntheses, Perspectives (by G. R. Newkome, C. N. Moorefield, F. Vögtle)31
Steven C. Zimmerman
Book and Media Reviews
Chain Gang-The Chemistry of Polymers (edited by Mickey Sarquis)32
David M. Collard
Book and Media Reviews
Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry: Fundamentals, Instrumentation & Applications (edited by Richard B. Cole)33
Howard D. Dewald
Book and Media Reviews
Reductions by the Alumino- and Borohydrides in Organic Synthesis, 2nd edition (by Jacqueline Seyden-Penne)33
R. C. Hoye
Book and Media Reviews
Guidebook to Protein Toxins and Their Use in Cell Biology (edited by R. Rappuoli and C. Montecucco)34
Steven John Pernecky
Book and Media Reviews
CHEMiCALC (4000161) and CHEMiCALC Personal Tutor (4001108), Version 4.0 (by O. Bertrand Ramsay)34
Scott White and George Bodner
Book and Media Reviews
Electrophoresis: The Basics (by D. M. Hawcroft)35
William H. Voige
Book and Media Reviews
Books Noted36

 Chemistry Everyday For Everyone
JCE Classroom Activity
The Effects of Temperature on Lightsticks40A
John Norman Collie: Chemist and Mountaineer41
Ronald Bentley
Noble Metal-Membrane Composites for Electrochemical Applications47
Pierre Millet

 In The Classroom
Animating Reactions: A Low-Cost Activity for Particle Conceptualization at the Secondary Level50
Robert W. Milne
Amounts Tables as a Diagnostic Tool for Flawed Stoichiometric Reasoning52
John Olmsted III
Applications and Analogies
The Gravity of the Situation55
Damon Diemente
Resources for Student Assessment
Functional Group Analysis56
Johannes S. Malherbe and Cornelius J. Meyer
Resources for Student Assessment
Solving the Mathematics of a Kinetic and Regiochemical Problem: The Dehydration Reaction of a cis-trans Mixture of 2-Methylcycloalkanols58
John J. Cawley
The Design and Synthesis of a Large Interactive Classroom60
Laurel L. Clouston and Mark H. Kleinman
Synthesis of Colored Superabsorbent Polymer and Its Use To Demonstrate Convection Currents in Water by Heating62
Morio Takaki and Toshiyuki Itoh
Tested Demonstrations
A Simple Demonstration Model of Osmosis64
Joseph G. Morse
Tested Demonstrations
Luminosity, My Dear Watson, Luminosity!-Or, Are Those Bloodstains?65
Barbara A. Burke, Kamran Golestaneh, and Helene Samson
The Crystallization Clinic-A TA Orientation Exercise67
Marjorie Kandel
Safety Tips
A Lab Safety "Scavenger Hunt"68
Terry L. Helser

 In the Laboratory
Vial OrganicTM-Organic Chemistry Labs for High School and Junior College69
Thomas J. Russo and Mark Meszaros
Micropreparation of [RuH2{P(C6H5)3}4]: A Transition Metal Hydride Compound70
Donald E. Linn Jr.
A Microscale Synthesis of the Diastereomers of 2,3-Dibromosuccinic Acid73
John Tomsho, James R. McKee, and Murray Zanger
A Multistep Synthesis of 4-Nitro-1-ethynylbenzene Involving Palladium Catalysis, Conformational Analysis, Acetal Hydrolysis, and Oxidative Decarbonylation74
Thomas E. Goodwin, Eva M. Hurst, and Ashley S. Ross
Side Reactions in a Grignard Synthesis76
Hilton M. Weiss
A Simple Method for Determining the Absolute Configuration of a-Amino Acids77
María Dolores Díaz-de-Villegas and Esteban P. Urriolabeitia
Use of Protecting Groups in Carbohydrate Chemistry: An Advanced Organic Synthesis Experiment79
Anna C. Cunha, Leticia O. R. Pereira, Maria Cecília B. V. de Souza, and Vitor F. Ferreira
Inquiry-Based Approach to a Carbohydrate Analysis Experiment80
Edward G. Senkbeil
The Preparation of a Fluorescent Dye: A Microscale TLC Experiment82
Daniel S. Calimente, Shannon M. Strand, Shao-Chieh Chang, and David E. Lewis
Applications and Analogies
Chromatography83
Celestyn M. Brozek
Laser-Induced Fluorescence of Lightsticks84
Carl Salter, Kevin Range, and Gail Salter
Comparison of Analytical Methods: Direct Emission versus First-Derivative Fluorometric Methods for Quinine Determination in Tonic Waters85
Siddharth Pandey, Tammie L. Borders, Carmen E. Hernández, Lindsay E. Roy, Gaddum D. Reddy, Geo L. Martinez, Autumn Jackson, Guenevere Brown, and William E. Acree Jr.
The Ionization Energy of Helium88
Myron J. Kaufman and C. G. Trowbridge
Spectroscopy of Simple Molecules89
C. Baer and K. Cornely
Sweet Chemistry91
Benedict Aurian-Blajeni, Jonathan Sam, and Michael Sisak
Determination of the Critical Micelle Concentration of Cationic Surfactants: An Undergraduate Experiment93
Xirong Huang, Jinghe Yang, Wenjuan Zhang, Zhenyu Zhang, and Zesheng An
The Nernst Equation: Determination of Equilibrium Constants for Complex Ions of Silver95
Martin L. Thompson and Laura J. Kateley
Student Construction of a Gel-Filled Ag/AgCl Reference Electrode for Use in a Potentiometric Titration97
James M. Thomas
Effect of Sample Size on Sampling Error: An Experiment for Introductory Analytical Chemistry99
Joseph E. Vitt and Royce C. Engstrom

 Research: Science and Education
Chemical Education Research
Effects of Context-Based Laboratory Experiments on Attitudes of Analytical Chemistry Students100
Julie Henderleiter and David L. Pringle
Constructivism: The Implications for Laboratory Work107
Thomas W. Shiland
A Content Analysis of General Chemistry Laboratory Manuals for Evidence of Higher-Order Cognitive Tasks109
Daniel S. Domin
Students' Self-Assessment in Chemistry Examinations Requiring Higher- and Lower-Order Cognitive Skills112
Uri Zoller, Michal Fastow, Aviva Lubezky, and Georgios Tsaparlis
The Impact of Continuous Instructional Development on Graduate and Undergraduate Students114
Susan C. Nurrenbern, Joseph A. Mickiewicz, and Joseph S. Francisco
Student Active Learning Methods in General Chemistry120
Jeffrey Kovac
Effect of Experience on Retention and Elimination of Misconceptions about Molecular Structure and Bonding124
James P. Birk and Martha J. Kurtz
Gouy, Debye-Hückel, and Fick: Understanding Differential Equations without Solving Them129
Robert de Levie
A Unified Titration Formula132
P. Glaister

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Replace Double Replacement133
R. Bruce Martin
A Common Inorganic Chemistry Textbook Mistake: Incorrect Use of Pairing Energy in Crystal Field Stabilization Energy Expressions134
David Tudela
Computer Bulletin Board
Electronic States and Configurations: Visualizing the Difference135
Igor Novak
Computer Bulletin Board
A Random Number Model for Beer's Law-Atom Shadowing138
R. Scott Daniels
JCE Online
JCE Online: Equipment Buyers Guide142
Jon L. Holmes
JCE Software
Prospectus 1999143
Jon L. Holmes and Nancy S. Gettys
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 March 15, 1999
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