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Cover
February 2002
Vol. 79 No. 2


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Resolving to Contribute141
John W. Moore
Reports from Other Journals: The Science Teacher
The Science Teacher: Winter 2002142
Steve Long
Especially for High School Teachers
Cross-Connections of Chemistry143
Diana S. Mason
Nobel Centennial Essays
A Century of Chemical Dynamics Traced through the Nobel Prizes. 1909: Wilhelm Ostwald146
Josh Van Houten
Reports from Other Journals
Chem 13 News: A Valuable Resource 150
Kathy Thorsen
Reports from Other Journals: The Physics Teacher
The Physics Teacher: The Overlap of Chemistry and Physics154
Roy W. Clark
NSF Highlights
Modeling Effective Teaching and Learning in Chemistry155
Barbara A. Burke and Edward Walton
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Formic Acid157
Jay A. Young
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Copper(II) Sulfate Pentahydrate158
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements159
Letters
Easy Derivation... (re J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 1183)161
Julian L. Roberts Jr.
Letters
Easy Derivation... (re J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 1183)162
Stephen J. Hawkes
Letters
Correctly Expressing Atomic Weights (re J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 1438)163
George Gorin
Letters
Correctly Expressing Atomic Weights (re J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 1438)163
Moreno Paolini, Giovanni Cercignani, and Carlo Bauer
The Information Page164
Book and Media Reviews
Academic Excellence (edited by Michael P. Doyle)165
Jerry R. Mohrig
Book and Media Reviews
Chemistry CD (by B. C. Sanctuary)166
Jack K. Steehler
Book and Media Reviews
Stereochemistry (by David G. Morris)167
R. David Crouch
Book and Media Reviews
The Science of Chocolate (by Stephen T. Beckett)167
Jeffrey Kovac
Advertising in This Issue168
Out of the Editor's Basket169

 Chemistry for Everyone
Products of Chemistry
Chemistry under the Microscope--Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies173
Coulton H. Legge

 In The Classroom
Denitrification as a Model Chemical Process179
Gordan Grguric
Colorful Azulene and Its Equally Colorful Derivatives183
Robert S. H. Liu
Overhead Projector Demonstrations
Of Magnets and Mechanisms186
Edward G. Neeland
Disorder--A Cracked Crutch for Supporting Entropy Discussions187
Frank L. Lambert
First Law of Thermodynamics; Irreversible and Reversible Processes193
Norman C. Craig and Eric A. Gislason
JCE Classroom Activity
Rubber Bands, Free Energy, and Le Châtelier's Principle200A
Warren Hirsch
Spontaneous Assembly of Soda Straws201
D. J. Campbell, E. R. Freidinger, J. M. Hastings, and M. K. Querns

 In the Laboratory
Chemical Vapor Deposition of Carbon Nanotubes: An Experiment in Materials Chemistry203
Bradley D. Fahlman
Chemical Analysis Using Scanning Force Microscopy. An Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment207
Mathew M. Maye, Jin Luo, Li Han, and Chuan-Jian Zhong
The Poisson Distribution and Single-Molecule Spectroscopy. An Undergraduate Analytical Laboratory Experiment211
Elizabeth J. Harbron and Paul F. Barbara
Rare Gas Viscosities: A Learning Tool214
Arthur M. Halpern
Magnetic Stirring with the Stirring Bar Length Exceeding the Vessel Diameter217
Kirk W. Payne, James M. Lucas, and Edmund J. Eisenbraun
The Mechanism of Aqueous Hydrolysis of Nitro Derivatives of Phenyl Phenylmethanesulfonate. An Organic Laboratory Experiment218
S. D. Mulder, B. E. Hoogenboom, and A. G. Splittgerber
Use of 15N Label in Organic Synthesis and Spectroscopy. Part I: Preparation of 15N-Labeled tert-Butylamine221
Erach R. Talaty, Christopher A. Boese, Sanni M. Adewale, Mohammed S. Ismail, Frank A. Provenzano, and Melissa J. Utz
The Microscale Laboratory
Microscale Synthesis of a Diphenylisoxazoline by a 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition225
William B. Martin, Laura J. Kateley, Dawn C. Wiser, and Catherine A. Brummond
The Electrophilic Bromination of Toluene: Determination of the Ortho, Meta, and Para Ratios by Quantitative FTIR Spectrometry227
Ross E. Smith IV, James R. McKee, and Murray Zanger
Determination of the Rotameric Stability of 1,2-Dihaloethanes Using Infrared Spectroscopy. A Combined Experimental and Computational Project for the Physical Chemistry Laboratory230
Brian D. Wladkowski and Steven J. Broadwater
An ABMX Spin System Study: From Experimental to Calculated Spectra234
Christine Cordier, René Thouvenot, Hani Amouri, and Michel Gruselle

 Research: Science and Education
Deaf Students, Teachers, and Interpreters in the Chemistry Lab239
Brenda C. Seal, Dorothy H. Wynne, and Gina MacDonald
Teacher Perceptions in the Selection of Experiments244
Luis D. Montes and Mark G. Rockley
Chemical Education Research
Assessing Student Understanding of General Chemistry with Concept Mapping248
Joseph S. Francisco, Mary B. Nakhleh, Susan C. Nurrenbern, and Matthew L. Miller
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
The Symmetry Groups of Two Nonrigid Molecules258
Sidney F. A. Kettle
The Michael Reaction264
Thomas Poon, Bradford P. Mundy, and Thomas W. Shattuck

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Nonlinear Fits of Standard Curves: A Simple Route to Uncertainties in Unknowns 268
Carl Salter and Robert de Levie
JCE Software
Prospectus 2002271
Jon L. Holmes and Nancy S. Gettys
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