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Table of Contents
 
Cover
March 2000
Vol. 77 No. 3


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Maintaining Intellectual Infrastructure279
John W. Moore
ACS National Meeting: A Celebration of Chemistry in the 21st Century280
ACS National Meeting: High School Program280
Especially for High School Teachers281
J. Emory Howell
ACS National Meeting: Program for the Division of Chemical Education: San Francisco, CA, March 26-30, 2000283
Eun-Woo Chang, Boyd L. Earl, and Morton Hoffman
Exploring San Francisco293
Paul S. Cohen and Brenda H. Cohen
Input Requested for a History of the Division of Chemical Education296
J. J. Lagowski
Division News and Announcements297
Diane M. Bunce
Reports from Other Journals
News from Online: The Power of the Voice299
Carolyn Sweeney Judd
From Past Issues
Ancient Recipes300
Kathryn R. Williams
Education Research at NSF: The ROLE Program303
Donald J. Wink
NSF Highlights
Introducing Chiroscience into the Organic Laboratory Curriculum305
Kenny B. Lipkowitz, Tim Naylor, and Keith S. Anliker
News & Announcements307
Letters310
Book and Media Reviews
Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, 6th Edition (by F. A. Cotton, G. Wilkinson, C. A. Murillo, and M. Bochmann)311
reviewed by Daniel Rabinovich
The Information Page312
Book and Media Reviews
Molecular Symmetry and Group Theory (by Robert L. Carter)313
reviewed by Sarah Stoll
Book and Media Reviews
The Chemistry of Organic Silicon Compounds, Volume 2, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (edited by Z. Rappoport and Y. Apeloig)313
reviewed by Paul F. Hudrlik
Book and Media Reviews
Organic Synthesis: The Science behind the Art (by W. A. Smit, A. F. Bochkov, and R. Caple) 314
reviewed by Arthur R. Murdoch
Book and Media Reviews
Fractals in Chemistry (by Walter G. Rothschild)315
reviewed by Richard Pagni
Book and Media Reviews
Fundamentals of Chemical Kinetics (by S. R. Logan)316
reviewed by Frank Wilkinson
Advertising in This Issue316

 In The Classroom
What Chemistry to Teach Engineers?321
Stephen J. Hawkes
Experimentation and Group Discussion as a Means of Determining Solubility Rules327
Karen E. Stevens
JCE Classroom Activity
Silver to Black - and Back328A
JCE Editorial Staff
Drawing Lewis Structures from Lewis Symbols: A Direct Electron-Pairing Approach329
Wan-Yaacob Ahmad and Mat B. Zakaria
Cyclohexane: Boat Form Revisited332
Ronald R. Sauers

 Research: Science and Education
Chemical Education Research
Measuring Conceptual Change in Organic Chemistry333
Jane Gradwohl Nash, Louis J. Liotta, and Ralph J. Bravaco

 Chemistry for Everyone
Products of Chemistry
Organic Vapor Sensors for Food Quality Assessment338
Colin L. Honeybourne
Products of Chemistry
Using Microorganisms in Synthetic Organic Chemistry344
Stanley M. Roberts
Products of Chemistry
Drug Metabolism: The Body's Defense against Chemical Attack349
Andrew V. Stachulski and Martin S. Lennard

 In the Laboratory
Experiments with Aspirin354
Londa L. Borer and Edward Barry
Microwave Irradiation Reactions: Synthesis of Analgesic Drugs356
Gholam A. Mirafzal and Jolene M Summer
Synthesis of the Sweetener Dulcin from the Analgesic Tylenol357
Brian D. Williams, Birute Williams, and Louise Rodino
Isolation of Curcumin from Turmeric359
Andrew M. Anderson, Matthew S. Mitchell, and Ram S. Mohan
Isolating trans-Anethole from Anise Seeds and Elucidating Its Structure: A Project Utilizing One- and Two-Dimensional NMR Spectrometry361
Joseph W. LeFevre
Probing the Active Site of Yeast Alcohol Dehydrogenase through Microscale Yeast-Mediated Reductions of Acetophenone and Acetylpyridines. A Collaborative and Research-Based Advanced Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory Project363
Moses Lee, Jennifer Azbell, Michael Carnahan, Kari Cox, Joey Espinosa, Ray Feaster, Robert Hirsch, Andrew Lam, Shane Roller, Brent Steadman, and James Toth
Identification of Pharmaceuticals via Computer-Aided Thin Layer Chromatography366
Anthony J. Macherone Jr. and Theodore J. Siek
Rapid, Simple Quantitation in Thin-Layer Chromatography Using a Flatbed Scanner368
Mitchell E. Johnson
A Convenient and Highly Specific Western Blot Experiment for Introductory Biochemistry373
Christopher J. Fenk, Stephanie Y. Grooms, and Donald G. Gerbig Jr.
A Practical Exercise for Photochemistry and Photobiology: Production of Hydrogen Peroxide375
Fernando Gallardo, Susana Gàlvez, Miguel Angel Medina, Antonio Heredia, and Carlos Gómez-Moreno
An Analytical Laboratory Experiment in Error Analysis: Repeated Determination of Glucose Using Commercial Glucometers377
Paul L. Edmiston and Theodore R. Williams
Thermal Denaturation of Proteins Studied by UV Spectroscopy380
Natasa Poklar and Gorazd Vesnaver
Multicomponent Reactions: A Convenient Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Experiment382
Ricardo Bossio, Stefano Marcaccini, Carlos F. Marcos, and Roberto Pepino
Dediazoniations in Water: An Integrated Physical Organic Chemistry Experiment384
Ugo Costas-Costas, Román Pazo-LLorente, Elisa González-Romero, and Carlos Bravo-Díaz
Organic Chemistry in Capillaries387
Bharat G. Mahamulkar, Dilip D. Dhavale, and Shriniwas L. Kelkar
A Simple Laboratory-Constructed Automatic Titrator389
Kurt L. Headrick, Terry K. Davies, and Aaron N. Haegele
An Inexpensive Convenient Press for KBr and CsI Pellets in Infrared Studies391
Chris Kalberg and Paul J. Ogren
Micelles in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory: Diffusion Coefficients and Half-Wave Potentials of Ferrocene392
Kathryn R. Williams and Roberto Bravo
Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium: Verification of the Lever Rule395
A. D. Jordan
Molecular Modeling to Predict Regioselectivity of Hydration Reactions396
Kate J. Graham, Kathleen Skoglund, Chris P. Schaller, William P. Muldoon, and John B. Klassen

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Computer Bulletin Board
A Molecular Modeling Program for Teaching Structural Biochemistry397
James C. Dabrowiak, Paul J. Hatala, and Mark McPike
Teaching with Technology
RasMol and Mage in the Undergraduate Biochemistry Curriculum401
Steven W. Weiner, Paul F. Cerpovicz, Dabney W. Dixon, Donald B. Harden, Donna S. Hobbs, and Donna L. Gosnell
Teaching with Technology
Using Computer Assisted Learning to Teach Molecular Reaction Dynamics407
Katharine L. Reid, Richard J. Wheatley, Stephen W. Brydges, and John C. Horton
Computer Bulletin Board
Analysis with Microelectrodes Using Microsoft Excel Solver409
Enda Howard and John Cassidy
Chemical Information Instructor
Teaching and Using Chemical Information: Annotated Bibliography, 1993-1998412
Carol Carr
An Unexpected Event When Chymotrypsin Performs Its Physiological Role422
Ivan G. Darvey
JCE Software
ChemPages Laboratory: Abstract of Special Issue 24 on CD-ROM423
Joe L. March, John W. Moore, and Jerrold J. Jacobsen
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