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November 2000
Vol. 77 No. 11


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Scholarship in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering1383
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers1385
J. Emory Howell
Report
Cornell College Students Achieve the Highly Improbable1386
Addison Ault
A Report on CUR 2000: The Many Facets of Undergraduate Research1388
Kerry K. Karukstis
Meeting Reports
16th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education1390
Fitzgerald B. Bramwell
2YC3--More Than Just an Ice Cream Social1392
Rick Bolesta
Report
Information Technology Research and Education at NSF1395
Donald J. Wink
NSF Highlights
Introducing Light-Scattering Technology into the Undergraduate Curriculum1396
John A. Bumpus, Juyun J. Kim, and Shoshanna R. Coon
ACS National Meeting
Washington, DC, Fall 2000: A Photo Report1402
News and Notices1403
News & Announcements1405
The Information Page1408
Letters
Epoxy Polymerization1409
Fred Schubert and Tom LoBuglio
Letters
Interpretation of Second Virial Coefficient1409
Vivek Utgikar
Letters
Interpretation of Second Virial Coefficient: Author Reply1409
Jaime Wisniak
Letters
Determination of the Oxygen Content of Air1410
Per Christian Braathen
Letters
Equilibrium: A Teaching/Learning Activity1410
Todd P. Silverstein
Letters
Equilibrium: A Teaching/Learning Activity: Author Reply1410
Audrey Wilson
Letters
Bond Strength in Transition Metals1410
David Tudela
Letters
Reaction Feasibility and the Planck Function1411
William B. Jensen
Book and Media Reviews
Inorganic Chemistry
by Gary Wulfsberg

1412
Martin N. Ackermann
Book and Media Reviews
A Question of Chemistry: Creative Problems for Critical Thinkers
by John Garratt, Tina Overton, and Terry Threlfall

1413
Jeffrey Kovac
Book and Media Reviews
Physical Methods in Bioinorganic Chemistry: Spectroscopy and Magnetism
edited by Lawrence Que Jr.

1413
Rosemary A. Marusak
Book and Media Reviews
SolEq: Solution Equilibria, Principles and Applications, Release 1
by SolEq Project Team: L. D. Pettit, K. J. Powell, and R. W. Ramette

1414
Marina C. Koether
Book and Media Reviews
What Einstein Told His Barber
by Robert L. Wolke

1416
Wheeler Conover
Advertising in This Issue1416
Out of the Editor's Basket1417

 Chemistry for Everyone
Products of Chemistry
Developing New Antibiotics with Combinatorial Biosynthesis1421
Nicola L. Pohl
A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words: The BLT in Teaching Crystal Structure1423
Arthur M. Lesk

 In The Classroom
Concepts in Biochemistry
Teaching Noncovalent Interactions in the Biochemistry Curriculum through Molecular Visualization: The Search for p Interactions1424
James R. Cox
Assigning and Using Oxidation Numbers in Biochemistry Lecture Courses1428
Christopher J. Halkides
JCE Classroom Activity
Cabbage Patch Chemistry1432A
JCE Editorial Staff
No, the Molecular Mass of Bromobenzene Is Not 157 amu: An Exercise in Mass Spectrometry and Isotopes for Early General Chemistry1433
Steven M. Schildcrout
How Can an Instructor Best Introduce the Topic of Significant Figures to Students Unfamiliar with the Concept?1435
Richard A. Pacer
Correctly Expressing Atomic Weights 1438
Moreno Paolini, Giovanni Cercignani, and Carlo Bauer
To the Front of the Class1440
Dale E. Wheeler
Cooperative Learning in Organic II. Increased Retention on a Commuter Campus 1441
James P. Hagen
Electron Densities: Pictorial Analogies for Apparent Ambiguities in Probability Calculations1444
María Gabriela Lagorio
Overhead Projector Demonstrations
Crystallization from a Supersaturated Solution of Sodium Acetate1446
Jamil Ahmad
Tested Demonstrations
A Novel Experiment for Fast and Simple Determination of the Oxygen Content in the Air1447
Metodija Najdoski and Vladimir M. Petrusevski
Tested Demonstrations
Combustion Demonstration Using Updated Flame Tornado1449
Edward G. Senkbeil
Tested Demonstrations
A Simple Method for Demonstrating Enzyme Kinetics Using Catalase from Beef Liver Extract1451
Kristin A. Johnson
Understanding Enzyme Inhibition1453
Raymond S. Ochs

 In the Laboratory
A Simple Protein Purification and Folding Experiment for General Chemistry Laboratory1456
Robert Bowen, Richard Hartung, and Yvonne M. Gindt
A Biochemical Study of Noncovalent Forces in Proteins Using Phycocyanin from Spirulina1458
Barbara A. Heller and Yvonne M. Gindt
Immunoprecipitation of Serum Albumin with Protein A-Sepharose: A Biochemistry Laboratory Experiment1460
Robert C. Bohinski
Identification and Quantitation of Plasma Membrane Components: A Biochemical Experiment for Lipid Investigations1463
Susan Keys
A Biochemical GC-MS Application for the Organic Chemistry Laboratory: Determination of Fatty Acid Composition of Arabidopsis thaliana Lipids1466
Jared D. Bender, Arthur J. Catino III., Kenneth R. Hess, Michael E. Lassman, Phyllis A. Leber, Michael D. Reinard, Neil A. Strotman, and Carl S. Pike
Thermodynamics of DNA Duplex Formation: A Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory Experiment1469
Kathleen P. Howard
DNA Topology Analysis in the Undergraduate Biochemistry Laboratory1471
Michael V. Keck
Cyclization of the Monoterpene Citronellal to Isopulegol: A Biomimetic Natural Product Synthesis1474
Bruce L. Jensen, Ahmed Malkawi, and Vanessa McGowan
A Ten-Dollar Stirring Device for the Microscale Laboratory1476
Jeffrey John Willemsen
The Application of Electrodialysis to Desalting an Amino Acid Solution1477
Vicente García-García, Vicente Montiel, José González-García, Eduardo Expósito, Jesús Iniesta, Pedro Bonete, and Marina Inglés
A Short, One-Pot Synthesis of Bupropion (Zyban®, Wellbutrin®)1479
Daniel M. Perrine, Jason T. Ross, Stephen J. Nervi, and Richard H. Zimmerman
The Microscale Laboratory
Ultramicro-Boiling-Point Determination--A Modification1480
Henry Brouwer
The Microscale Laboratory
A Microscale Oxidation Puzzle1481
Michael W. Pelter, Rebecca M. Macudzinski, and Mary Ellen Passarelli
Visible Aromatic Electronic Effects Using a Series of Substituted Copper Phthalocyanines1482
Darren K. MacFarland, Solomon Lieb, and Jessica Oswald
A Phthalocyanine Synthesis Group Project for General Chemistry1484
Darren K. MacFarland, Christopher M. Hardin, and Michael J. Lowe
Teaching Sample Preparation in the Undergraduate Laboratory1486
Douglas M. Goltz, Tara Hall, Andrew Grant, and Ed Segstro
It Says in the Books That Ethanol Burns with a Cool Flame1488
Jay A. Young
An EPR Experiment for the Undergraduate Physical Chemistry Laboratory1489
R. A. Butera and D. H. Waldeck

 Research: Science and Education
Have Orbitals Really Been Observed?1492
Eric R. Scerri
Numerical Evaluation of Energy Levels and Wave Functions for Hindered Internal Rotation1495
Gianfranco Ercolani
The Illustration of Multistability1502
Guy Schmitz, Ljiljana Kolar-Anic, Slobodan Anic, and Zeljko Cupic
Targeting Entry Points for Ethics in Chemistry Teaching and Learning1506
Brian P. Coppola
Chemical Education Research
Using Demonstration Assessments to Improve Learning1511
William C. Deese, Linda L. Ramsey, Jeffrey Walczyk, and Danny Eddy
Chemical Education Research
Using a Computer Animation to Improve Students' Conceptual Understanding of a Can-Crushing Demonstration 1517
Michael J. Sanger, Amy J. Phelps, and Jason Fienhold

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Electrical Deflection of Polar Liquid Streams: A Misunderstood Demonstration1520
Maryam Ziaei-Moayyed, Edward Goodman, and Peter Williams
Computer Bulletin Board
Analysis of First-Order Kinetics Using Microsoft Excel Solver1524
Philip Denton
JCE Software
Advanced Chemistry Collection: Abstract of Special Issue 28, a CD ROM (for Students)1526
JCE Software
PTRJ1527
Alexander Grushow
JCE Software
Simulation of the Physical Chemistry of Gas Chromatography1528
John Haigh and J. R. Lord
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