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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2002  > June  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 June 2002
Vol. 79 No. 6

 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Educating Teachers647
John W. Moore
Summer Reading648
Jeffrey Kovac, Richard M. Pagni, Harold H. Harris, and Brian P. Coppola
Especially for High School Teachers
Disciplina, Praedisium, Civitatis: Attend a Summer Meeting and Open Up Your World649
Diana S. Mason
Meeting Reports
Conference Overview: 17th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Western Washington University, July 28-August 1, 2002660
George S. Kriz and Sara Selfe
Reports from Other Journals
An Action Research Report: Improving Pre-Laboratory Preparation of First-Year University Chemistry Students663
Kenneth S. Lyle and William R. Robinson
NSF Highlights
Impact of Incorporation of High Field FT-NMR Spectroscopy into the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum665
David B. Ball and Randy Miller
Nobel Centennial Essays
A Century of Chemical Dynamics Traced through the Nobel Prizes. 1981: Fukui and Hoffmann667
J. Van Houten
Association Reports
MACTLAC—Supporting Liberal Arts Chemistry Faculty670
Mark Muyskens
Association Reports: CHED
Exams Institute Moves671
Donald Jones
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Acetaldehyde672
Jay A. Young
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Glass Wool673
Jay A. Young
The Information Page674
News & Announcements675
Book and Media Reviews
NMR and Chemistry: An Introduction to Modern NMR Spectrocopy, 4th Edition (by J. W. Akitt and B. E. Mann)677
Manish Mehta
Book and Media Reviews
Transition Metal Carbonyl Cluster Chemistry (by Paul J. Dyson and J. Scott McIndoe)677
Linda H. Doerrer
Book and Media Reviews
Functional Group Chemistry (by James R. Hanson)678
Joel M. Karty
Book and Media Reviews
Bridging to the Lab [CD-ROM] (by Loretta Jones and Roy Tasker)679
Wheeler Conover
Advertising in This Issue680
Out of the Editor's Basket681

 Chemistry for Everyone
The Avtex Saga: National Security versus Environmental Protection685
Susan Groves and Frank A. Settle Jr.

 In The Classroom
Radioactivity, Radiation, and the Chemistry of Nuclear Waste692
Nick Zevos
H Is for Enthalpy, Thanks to Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and Alfred W. Porter697
Irmgard K. Howard
The Multi-Initiative Dissemination Project: Active-Learning Strategies for College Chemistry699
K. A. Burke, Thomas J. Greenbowe, Eileen L. Lewis, and G. Earl Peace
A New Approach to Understanding Oxidation-Reduction of Compounds in Organic Chemistry700
Abdullah Menzek
Tested Demonstrations
Exploring the Diffraction Grating Using a He-Ne Laser and a CD-ROM703
Joel Tellinghuisen

 In the Laboratory
The Microscale Laboratory
Microscale pH Titrations Using an Automatic Pipet705
Edward B. Flint, Carrie L. Kortz, and Max A. Taylor
Hydrogen Bonding Using NMR: A New Look at the 2,4-Pentanedione Keto–Enol Tautomer Experiment707
Alexander Grushow and Theresa Julia Zielinski
An Environmental Chemistry Laboratory for the Determination of a Distribution Coefficient715
F. M. Dunnivant and Jason Kettel
Analytical Problems Associated with the Analysis of Metals in a Simulated Hazardous Waste718
F. M. Dunnivant
Fractional Distillation and GC Analysis of Hydrocarbon Mixtures721
Craig J. Donahue
Synthesis and Characterization of a Gasoline Oxygenate, Ethyl tert-Butyl Ether724
Craig J. Donahue, Teresa D'Amico, and Jennifer A. Exline
Chiral Compounds and Green Chemistry in Undergraduate Organic Laboratories: Reduction of a Ketone by Sodium Borohydride and Baker's Yeast727
Nicola Pohl, Allen Clague, and Kimberly Schwarz
Aqueous-Phase Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling. A Green Chemistry Laboratory Experiment729
Brandy A. Harper, J. Chance Rainwater, Kurt Birdwhistell, and D. Andrew Knight
Preparation of Aniline Derivatives: An Advanced Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment Exploring Catalytic and Stoichiometric Reaction Methodologies731
Joan Colom, Antoni Llobet, Anna Pla-Quintana, and Anna Roglans

 Research: Science and Education
Conceptual Difficulties Experienced by Prospective Teachers in Electrochemistry: Half-Cell Potential, Cell Potential, and Chemical and Electrochemical Equilibrium in Galvanic Cells735
Ali Riza Özkaya
Chemical Education Research
An Inventory for Alternate Conceptions among First-Semester General Chemistry Students739
Douglas R. Mulford and William R. Robinson
Chemical Education Research
The Influence of Collaborative Learning on Student Attitudes and Performance in an Introductory Chemistry Laboratory745
Ivan A. Shibley Jr. and Dawn M. Zimmaro
Chemical Education Research
Predicting Students at Risk in General Chemistry Using Pre-semester Assessments and Demographic Information749
Eugene P. Wagner, Howell Sasser, and Warren J. DiBiase
Chemical Education Research
Following the Development of the Bonding Concept Using Knowledge Space Theory756
Mare Taagepera, Ramesh Arasasingham, Frank Potter, Arash Soroudi, and Giang Lam

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
How We Teach Molecular Structure to Freshmen763
Michael O. Hurst
Chemical Information Instructor
Incorporation of the CrossFire Beilstein Database into the Organic Chemistry Curriculum at the Royal Danish School of Pharmacy765
S. Brøgger Christensen, Henrik Franzyk, Bente Frølund, Jerzy W. Jaroszewski, Dan Stærk, and Per Vedsø
Linking JCE WebWare to JCE Articles768
William F. Coleman and Randall J. Wildman
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