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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2001  > March  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 March 2001
Vol. 78 No. 3

 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Let's Go for It!279
John W. Moore
ACS National Meeting. High School Program280
Especially for High School Teachers281
J. Emory Howell
Oxygen283
Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann
ACS National Meeting. Program for the Division of Chemical Education: San Diego, March 31-April 5, 2001292
Koni Stone, James O. Schreck, and Morton Z. Hoffman
ACS National Meeting. Undergraduate Program297
ACS National Meeting. Presidential Events: Professional Development throughout the Career Cycle297
ACS National Meeting. CHED-Sponsored Workshops299
Exploring San Diego301
Paul S. Cohen and Brenda H. Cohen
News & Announcements306
The Information Page310
Letters
Presidential Elections and Significant Digits311
Ron DeLorenzo
Letters
The Photochemical Basis of Cyanotype Photography (about J. Chem. Educ., 1999, 76, 1199-1200)311
Harmon B. Abrahamson
Letters
Explaining Entropy Pictorially311
Scott E. Wood and Rubin Battino
Corrections
Correction to "Synthesis of Methyl 2,3,5-Tri-O-benzoyl-a-D-arabinofuranoside in the Organic Laboratory" (J. Chem. Educ. 2001, 78, 73-74)312
Corrections
Correction to "Drug Metabolism: The Body's Defense against Chemical Attack" (J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 349-353)312
Book and Media Reviews
Rutherford, Scientist Supreme (by John Campbell) 313
John F. C. Turner
Book and Media Reviews
Advanced Organic Chemistry, Part A: Structure and Mechanism, 4th Edition (by Francis A. Carey and Richard J. Sundberg) 314
R. Daniel Libby
Book and Media Reviews
Nucleic Acids: Structures, Properties, and Functions (by Victor A. Bloomfield, Donald M. Crothers, and Ignacio Tinoco Jr.; with contributions from John E. Hearst, David E. Wemmer, Peter A. Kollman, and Douglas H. Turner)314
John H. Shibata
Book and Media Reviews
Stop Working & Start Thinking: A Guide to Becoming a SCIENTIST (by Jack Cohen and Graham Medley); The Scientific Endeavor: A Primer on Scientific Principles and Practice (by Jeffrey A. Lee)315
Jeffrey Kovac
Advertising in This Issue316
Out of the Editor's Basket317

 Chemistry for Everyone
Products of Chemistry
Chemistry and Molecular Electronics: New Molecules as Wires, Switches, and Logic Gates321
Michael D. Ward
JCE Classroom Activity
Burning to Learn: An Introduction to Flame Retardants328A
JCE Editorial Staff

 In The Classroom
Tested Demonstrations
Enchanted Glass329
Sándor Szabó L., Károly Mazák, Dezsö Knausz, and Márta Rózsahegyi
Overhead Projector Demonstrations
Demonstration of Surface Tension332
Andrew J. Rosenthal
The Floating Needle334
F. E. Condon and F. E. Condon Jr.
Computer Bulletin Board
A Low-Cost Dynamic Surface Tension Meter with a LabVIEW Interface and Its Usefulness in Understanding Foam Formation338
Pietre Spanoghe, Jan Cocquyt, and Paul Van der Meeren

 In the Laboratory
An Alternative to Mercury Thermometers342
Alexander Nezlin
Surface Tension Determination through Capillary Rise and Laser Diffraction Patterns343
Teresita Munguia and Charles A. Smith
Contact Angles of Aqueous Solutions on Copper Surfaces Bearing Self-Assembled Monolayers345
Vincent S. J. Craig, Anthony C. Jones, and Tim J. Senden
A Simplified Method for the Determination of Critical Micelle Concentration347
Mariano J. L. Castro, Hernán Ritacco, José Kovensky, and Alicia Fernández-Cirelli
Micelles in the Physical/Analytical Chemistry Laboratory. Acid Dissociation of Neutral Red Indicator349
Kathryn R. Williams and Loretta H. Tennant
Sampling Technique for Organic Solids in IR Spectroscopy: Thin Solid Films as the Method of Choice in Teaching Laboratories351
Patty L. Feist
Computer Bulletin Board
Using a Diode Laser Pointer to Count Drops and Automate Titration Systems353
Paul Ogren, Steve Nelson, and Ian Henry
Application of Light Emitting Diodes to Chemical Analysis: Determination of Copper in Water355
Juan D. Mozo, Manuel Galán, and Emilio Roldán
Topics in Chemical Instrumentation
Ion Chromatography: Analysis of Ions in Pond Waters358
Kumar Sinniah and Kenneth Piers
Safe and Efficient Flash Chromatography Equipment for the Research/Teaching Lab363
Fritiof Pontén and Ulf Ellervik
What Factors Affect the Separation of Substances Using Thin-Layer Chromatography? An Undergraduate Experiment364
John J. Nash, Jeanne A. Meyer, and Barbara Everson
The Microscale Laboratory
From GC to the NMR: A Simple Semipreparative Gas Chromatography Collection Method Using NMR Tubes366
Andrew R. Bressette
A Preparative TLC Applicator367
Tom Lyons Fisher and Charles P. Gilman
A Strategy for Incorporating Hands-On GC-MS into the General Chemistry Lecture and Laboratory Courses368
Perry C. Reeves and Kim L. Pamplin
Determining the Percent Water in Organic Solvents Using the Zwitterionic Dimroth-Reichardt Betaine ET-30 Dye. An Industrially Relevant Application of a Previously Published Laboratory Experiment370
Mark F. Vitha

 Research: Science and Education
Teaching Chemical Technique. A Review of the Literature373
Stephen DeMeo
Are Micelles and Vesicles Chemical Equilibrium Systems?380
Pier Luigi Luisi
Are Fizzing Drinks Boiling? A Chemical Insight from Chemical Education Research385
Alan Goodwin
Electronegativity and Bond Type: Predicting Bond Type387
Gordon Sproul
Quantum Alchemy: Transmutation of Atomic Orbitals391
S. M. Blinder
Two Particles in a Box395
Igor Novak
Tachyons and Quantum Chemistry397
Marcin Molski
Investigating the Adiabatic Approximation in Quantum Mechanics through the Analysis of Two Coupled Harmonic Oscillators401
Anne B. McCoy

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Computer Bulletin Board
A Graphical Approach to the Angular Momentum Schrödinger Equation405
Danny G. Miles Jr. and Theresa A. Francis
Error Estimates for Fitted Parameters: Application to HCl/DCl Vibrational-Rotational Spectroscopy409
Scott E. Feller and Charles F. Blaich
Teaching with Technology
Using the Internet to Individualize Laboratory Questions412
Steven D. Gammon and Sharon G. Hutchison
Curricular Change Digests
Physical Chemistry On Line: Interinstitutional Collaboration at a Distance414
Marcy Towns, Deborah Sauder, David Whisnant, and Theresa Julia Zielinski
A Note on "A Thermodynamic Analysis to Explain the Boiling-Point Isotope Effect for Molecular Hydrogen"416
Lilia Meza-Montes and Peter Hoffmann-Pinther
Logic vs Misconceptions in Undergraduate Organic Textbooks: Radical Stabilities and Bond Dissociation Energies417
Andreas A. Zavitsas
Molecular Modeling Exercises and Experiments
Which Nitrogen? Combining Computer Modeling with Laboratory Work in Organic Chemistry420
Leslie A. Hull
JCE Online
Updates422
Jon L. Holmes
JCE Software
Chemistry Comes Alive! Volume 5423
Jerrold J. Jacobsen, Kristin Johnson, John W. Moore, and Gary Trammell
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 February 6, 2001
April 14, 2005
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