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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1999  > June  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 June 1999
Vol. 76 No. 6

 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Learning Is a Do-It-Yourself Activity725
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Especially for High School Teachers727
J. Emory Howell
Reports from Other Journals: News from Online
News from Online: A Spectrum of Color728
Carolyn Sweeney Judd
Summer Reading730
Ed Walsh, Jeff Kovac, Hal Harris, and Dick Pagni
Commentary
Should We Put Observations First?734
Mansoor Niaz
Association Report: ACS Division of Chemical Education
Secretary's Report, April 1999736
Jerry L. Sarquis
JCE Classroom Activity
Photochemistry and Pinhole Photography: An Interdisciplinary Experiment736A
Angeliki A. Rigos and Kevin Salemme
Meeting Report
Pushing the Rainbow: Frontiers in Color Chemistry; Light and Color in Chemistry; Report on Two American Chemical Society Presidential Events737
Nancy S. Gettys
Meeting Report
The Chemical Education Program, Anaheim ACS Meeting747
Tom Wildeman, Richard Schwenz, and Craig Bowen
From Past Issues
Snippets750
Kathryn R. Williams
Report
The National Science Board on Science Education751
Donald J. Wink
NSF Highlights
New Quant: A Quantitative Analysis Laboratory Curriculum Using an Analyzed Complex Matrix752
R. Cameron Dorey, Jeffrey A. Draves, and Conrad L. Stanitski
News & Announcements753
Letters756
Advertising in this Issue757
Corrections
Correction to The Bobbing Bird: Correction to J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, 355757
H. D. Gesser
Information Page 758
An Introduction to Hydrogen Bonding (by George A. Jeffrey)759
Michael J. Minch
Natural Product Chemistry: A Mechanistic, Biosynthetic and Ecological Approach, Second Edition (by Kurt B. G. Torssell)759
Pamela K. Kerrigan
Biochemistry (by Jochanan Stenesh) 760
Arthur Glasfeld
Fundamentals of Inorganic Chemistry: An Introductory Text for Degree Course Studies (by Jack Barrett and Mounir A. Malati)761
reviewed by Jay H. Worrell
Statistical Mechanics: Fundamentals and Modern Applications (by Richard E. Wilde and Surjit Singh)761
reviewed by C. Michael McCallum
A Practical Guide for the Preparation of Specimens for X-ray Fluorescence and X-ray Diffraction Analysis (by V. E. Buhrke, R. Jenkins, and D. K. Smith)762
Reuben Rudman

 Waters Symposium
Waters Symposium
Development and Proliferation of Radioimmunoassay Technology767
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Waters Symposium
The Annual James L. Waters Symposium at Pittcon-Preamble767
J. F. Coetzee
Waters Symposium
Immunoassay, DNA Analysis, and Other Ligand Binding Assay Techniques: From Electropherograms to Multiplexed, Ultrasensitive Microarrays on a Chip769
Roger P. Ekins
Waters Symposium
Homogeneous Immunoassays: Historical Perspective and Future Promise781
Edwin F. Ullman
Waters Symposium
Radioimmunoassay of Gastrointestinal Hormones788
Eugene Straus
Waters Symposium
The Impact on Business of Research in the Rapidly Maturing Diagnostics Industry790
Anders Weber

 Chemistry Everyday For Everyone
Both Nylon and PET Fibers Burn Continuously under Atmospheric Conditions793
Shouei Fujishige, Nagako Maebashi, and Mizue Miyauchi
Tested Demonstrations
The Methane Balloon794
Walter H. Corkern and Elvin Hughes Jr.

 In the Classroom
Resources for Student Assessment
Theme-Based Exams in General Chemistry795
Carmela Amato-Wierda
Bird-in-the-Hand Method for Determination of Absolute Configuration in Fischer Projections798
Edward Siloac
A New Method To Convert the Fischer Projection of Monosaccharide to the Haworth Projection799
Qing-zhi Zhang and Shen-song Zhang
The Genius of Slater's Rules802
James L. Reed
Estimates of Precision in a Standard Additions Analysis805
Graham R. Bruce and Paramjit S. Gill
Safety Tips
Chemical Waste Management for the Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator808
Steven W. Zimmer

 In the Laboratory
Capillary Electrophoretic Quantitative Analysis of Anions in Drinking Water812
Stéphane Demay, Alexia Martin-Girardeau, and Marie-France Gonnord
Separation and Quantification of Simple Ions by Capillary Zone Electrophoresis. A Modern Undergraduate Instrumentation Laboratory815
Mary Boyce
Micellular Electrokinetic Capillary Chromatography in the Undergraduate Curriculum: Separation and Identification of the Amino Acid Residues in an Unknown Dipeptide Using FMOC Derivatization820
Timothy G. Strein, James L. Poechmann, and Mark Prudenti
A Puzzling Alcohol Dehydration Reaction Solved by GC–MS Analysis826
Michael W. Pelter and Rebecca M. Macudzinski
Preparation and Identification of Benzoic Acids and Benzamides: An Organic "Unknown" Lab828
Douglass F. Taber, Jade D. Nelson, and John P. Northrop
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
A Simple and Convenient Method for Generation and NMR Observation of Stable Carbanions. An Advanced Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment830
Hamid S. Kasmai
Topics in Chemical Instrumentation
Optimizing Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Using Sequential Simplex Optimization834
Richard J. Stolzberg
The Electronic Absorption Spectrum of Molecular Iodine: A New Fitting Procedure for the Physical Chemistry Laboratory839
Christopher J. Pursell and Lambert Doezema
The Iodine Spectrum: A New Look at an Old Topic841
George Long, Deborah Sauder, George M. Shalhoub, Roland Stout, Marcy Hamby Towns, and Theresa Julia Zielinski

 Research: Science and Education
Mean Field Theory of Phase Transitions848
Jurgen M. Honig

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
An Analysis of College Chemistry Textbooks As Sources of Misconceptions and Errors in Electrochemistry853
Michael J. Sanger and Thomas J. Greenbowe
Uncovering Oscillations, Complexity, and Chaos in Chemical Kinetics Using Mathematica861
M. M. C. Ferreira, W. C. Ferreira Jr., A. C. S. Lino, and M. E. G. Porto
Computer Bulletin Board
Deconvolution of Gas Chromatograms with Excel867
James V. Arena and Tuan M. Leu
A Virtual Curve-Fitting Instrument for Interactive Analysis of Excimer Dynamics868
Giles Henderson
JCE Online
Molecular Modeling871
Jon L. Holmes
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