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January 2002
Vol. 79 No. 1


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Graduate Education7
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers8
Diana Mason and Erica K. Jacobsen
News & Announcements8
Reports from Other Journals: Nature
Nature: Self-Healing Polymers and Other Improved Materials10
Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon Cannon
Commentary
Interdisciplinary Research: A Student's Perspective13
Eric N. Brown
From Past Issues
Early Automated Testing: The 5-0-216
Kathryn R. Williams
Reports from Other Journals
Talking about Science18
Kenneth S. Lyle and William R. Robinson
Nobel Centennial Essays. A Century of Chemical Dynamics Traced through the Nobel Prizes. 1903: Svante Arrhenius21
Josh Van Houten
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile: Arsenic(III) Oxide23
Jay A. Young
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile: Oleic Acid24
Jay A. Young
Letters
pH of Sodium Acetate Solutions29
Guy Schmitz
Letters
Response to Potential-Energy-Only Models (re J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 155-156)29
Frank Rioux and Roger L. DeKock
Letters
Response to Potential-Energy-Only Models (re J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 155-156)30
John P. Lowe
The Information Page32
Book and Media Reviews
Chemistry for the 21st Century (edited by Ehud Keinan and Israel Schechter)33
Joseph E. Earley Sr.
Book and Media Reviews
Classics in Hydrocarbon Chemistry: Syntheses, Concepts, Perspectives (by Henning Hopf) 34
Ronald M. Magid
Book and Media Reviews
Naturally Dangerous: Surprising Facts about Food, Health, and the Environment (by James P. Collman) 35
Harold H. Harris
Book and Media Reviews
Nuclear and Radiochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications, 2nd, Revised Edition (by Karl Heinrich Lieser)35
Curtis R. Keedy
Advertising in This Issue36
Out of the Editor's Basket37

 Chemistry for Everyone
Tick Tock, a Vitamin C Clock40A
Stephen W. Wright
Tested Demonstrations
The Vitamin C Clock Reaction41
Stephen W. Wright
Tested Demonstrations
Chemical Demonstrations with Consumer Chemicals: The Black and White Reaction44
Stephen W. Wright
Leopold's Workbench: The Hapsburg-Lorraine Grand Duke and Chemistry47
Gianfranco Scorrano, Nicoletta Nicolini, and Ida M. Masoner
An Interview with J. Dudley Herron53
Liberato Cardellini

 In The Classroom
The Mendeleev-Seaborg Periodic Table: Through Z = 1138 and Beyond60
Paul J. Karol
Tetrahedral Geometry and the Dipole Moment of Molecules64
Sara N. Mendiara and L. J. Perissinotti
Effect of Anisotropy on the Chemical Shift of Vinyl Protons in trans- and cis-1,2-Dibenzoylethylenes. A Small-Group or Recitation Activity67
Roosevelt Shaw, David Roane, and Sean Nedd
Tested Demonstrations
An Efficient Composition for Bengal Lights70
M. Comet, L. Schreyeck, and H. Fuzellier
Tested Demonstrations
Factors Affecting Reaction Kinetics of Glucose Oxidase74
Kristin A. Johnson
Overhead Projector Demonstrations
Illustrating Poisson's Ratios with Paper Cutouts76
D. J. Campbell and M. K. Querns

 In the Laboratory
Using Latex Elastomer to Illustrate Euler's Chain Relationship78
Fred R. Hilgeman and Ana A. Alcaraz
Synthesis and Characterization of a Hyperbranched Copolymer81
A. Timothy Royappa
Solid-Phase Organic Synthesis and Combinatorial Chemistry: A Laboratory Preparation of Oligopeptides85
George A. Truran, Karelle S. Aiken, Thomas R. Fleming, Peter J. Webb, and J. Hodge Markgraf
Introducing Freshmen Students to the Practice of Solid-Phase Synthesis87
Alpay Taralp, Can Hulusi Türkseven, Atilla Özgür Çakmak, and Ömer Çengel
Second-Year and AP Chemistry
Modeling the Drug Discovery Process: The Isolation and Biological Testing of Eugenol from Clove Oil90
William H. Miles and Patricia M. Smiley
The Isolation of Rubber from Milkweed Leaves. An Introductory Organic Chemistry Lab91
Lisa Volaric and John P. Hagen
Soap from Nutmeg: An Integrated Introductory Organic Chemistry Laboratory Experiment94
Marcio C. S. de Mattos and David E. Nicodem
Diastereoselective Synthesis of a Strawberry Flavoring Agent by Epoxidation of Ethyl trans-b-Methylcinnamate96
Gayle J. Pageau, Rodwell Mabaera, Kathryn M. Kosuda, Tamara A. Sebelius, Ali H. Ghaffari, Kenneth A. Kearns, Jean P. McIntyre, Tina M. Beachy, and Dasan M. Thamattoor
Identification of Flavor Components in Perfumes by Headspace Solid-Phase Microextraction and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry98
Gerd Knupp, Peter Kusch, and Michael Neugebauer
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
Microscale Determination of Vitamin C by Weight Titrimetry100
Gaston A. East and Erica C. Nascimento
Coulometric Titrations in Wine Samples: Studies on the Determination of S(IV) and the Formation of Adducts103
Denise Lowinsohn and Mauro Bertotti
Synthesis of Quinolines and Their Characterization by 2-D NMR Spectroscopy106
Pamela J. Seaton, R. Thomas Williamson, Abhijit Mitra, and Ali Assarpour
The Microscale Laboratory
Wittig Reaction: The Synthesis of trans-9-(2-Phenylethenyl)anthracene Revisited111
Christine Jaworek and Sarah Iacobucci
Organometallic Mediated Organic Synthesis: A Reaction Sequence for an Advanced Integrated Laboratory Course112
David B. Ball and Randy Wilson
The Binding Constant for Complexation of Bilirubin to Bovine Serum Albumin. An Experiment for the Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory115
Kathryn R. Williams, Bhavin Adhyaru, Russell E. Pierce, and Stephen G. Schulman
Using the Asymmetric Stretch Band of Atmospheric CO2 to Obtain the C=O Bond Length117
Paul J. Ogren

 Research: Science and Education
Chemical Education Research
The Significance of Accurate Student Self-Assessment in Understanding of Chemical Concepts120
Susan D. Wiediger and John S. Hutchinson
Research with First- and Second-Year Undergraduates: A New Model for Undergraduate Inquiry at Research Universities125
Aaron R. Hutchison and David A. Atwood
The Hydrogen Molecular Ion Revisited127
Jean-Philippe Grivet
Application of the WKB Approximation in the Solution of the Schrödinger Equation133
Zbigniew L. Gasyna and John C. Light

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Abstracts of Recent JCE WebWare Articles135
A Simple Technique for Simultaneous Smoothing and Integration of Data135
P. Nikitas and C. Malliakas
An Excel Program to Study First-Order Kinetics135
Ken Muranaka
Some Unusual Applications of the "Error-Bar" Feature in Excel Spreadsheets135
Kieran F. Lim
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