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September 2005
Vol. 82 No. 9


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Teaching Science Amid Controversy1271
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Q & A Session1273
Erica K. Jacobsen
Reports from Other Journals
Research Advances: Nanoshells versus Cancer Cells, Sex Pheromone of Cockroach Identified, New Fluorophores Unmasked by Chemical Reaction1274
Angela G. King
Association Report: CUR
Communicating the Importance of Undergraduate Research to Legislators1279
Kerry Karukstis
Meeting Report
Teaching High School Chemistry as a Second Career. Summary of a Presidential Symposium1281
Maureen A. Scharberg
Conant Award Interview
An Interview with Annis Hapkiewicz, 2005 Award Winner1287
JCE Editorial Staff
Award Address
Constructivism and Information Technology at Columbia: A Journey from the Wilderness to the Promised Land. 2004 George C. Pimentel Award, sponsored by Dow Chemical Company1292
Nicholas J. Turro
Report
CHED Outreach Efforts1302
Morton Z. Hoffman
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Potassium Hydroxide1304
Jay A. Young
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Potassium Nitrate1305
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements1306
Letters
Some Footnotes on the History of Masurium1309
H. J. Wagner
Letters
More on Element 431310
George B. Kauffman
Letters
An Improved Preparation of 2,4-Dinitrophenylhydrazine Reagent1310
Ben Ruekberg and Eric Rossoni
Corrections
A Model for the Chemical Bond; J. Chem. Educ. 2004, 81, 427-4351311
Valerio Magnasco
The Information Page1312
Book and Media Reviews
Make Your Mark in Science. Creativity, Presenting, Publishing, and Patents. A Guide for Young Scientists (Claus Ascheron and Angela Kickuth)1313
Jeffrey Kovac
Book and Media Reviews
Encyclopedia of Analytical Science, Second Edition (Paul Worsfold, Alan Tonshend, and Colin Poole)1313
Robert Q. Thompson
Book and Media Reviews
Ewing's Analytical Instrumentation Handbook, 3rd Edition (Jack Cazes)1315
Jack K. Steehler
Advertising in This Issue1316
Out of the Editor's Basket1317

 Chemistry for Everyone
Products of Chemistry
Chemistry of Moth Repellents1321
Gabriel Pinto
JCE Featured Molecules
Moth Repellent Chemicals1324
William F. Coleman

 In The Classroom
Using Building-Block Puzzles To Practice Drawing Organic Mechanisms1325
Ender Erdik
Improving Conceptions in Analytical Chemistry: ci Vi = cf Vf1327
Margarita Rodríguez-López and Arnaldo Carrasquillo Jr.
Understanding Rotation about a C=C Double Bond1329
Susan E. Barrows and Thomas H. Eberlein
Cis and Trans Isomers of Cycloalkenes1334
Susan E. Barrows and Thomas H. Eberlein
Application of ChemDraw NMR Tool: Correlation of Program-Generated 13C Chemical Shifts and pKa Values of para-Substituted Benzoic Acids1340
Hongyi Wang
A Networked NMR Spectrometer: Configuring a Shared Instrument1342
David Alonso, G. William Mutch, Peter Wong, Steven Warren, Bal Barot, Jan Kosinski, and Mark Sinton
Interlaboratory Collaborations in the Undergraduate Setting1345
Elise G. Megehee, Alison Hyslop, and Richard J. Rosso

 In the Laboratory
Synthesis and Physical Properties of Liquid Crystals: An Interdisciplinary Experiment1349
Gerald R. Van Hecke, Kerry K. Karukstis, Hanhan Li, Hansford C. Hendargo, Andrew J. Cosand, and Marja M. Fox
Rotational Mobility in a Crystal Studied by Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy. An Experiment for the Physical Chemistry Laboratory1355
Madalena S. C. Dionísio, Hermínio P. Diogo, J. P. S. Farinha, and Joaquim J. Moura-Ramos
JCE Classroom Activity
Colors in Liquid Crystals1360A
George Lisensky and Elizabeth Boatman
Hands-on Classroom Photolithography Laboratory Module To Explore Nanotechnology1361
Scott J. Stelick, William H. Alger, Jesse S. Laufer, Anna M. Waldron, and Carl A. Batt
Introduction to Photolithography: Preparation of Microscale Polymer Silhouettes1365
Kimberly L. Berkowski, Kyle N. Plunkett, Qing Yu, and Jeffrey S. Moore
Making and Using a Sensing Polymeric Material for Cu2+: An Introduction to Polymers and Chemical Sensing1370
Jean R. Paddock, Anne T. Maghasi, William R. Heineman, and Carl J. Seliskar
Electropolymerized Conducting Polymer as Actuator and Sensor Device: An Undergraduate Electrochemical Laboratory Experiment1372
María T. Cortés and Juan C. Moreno
Plastic Antibodies: Molecular Recognition with Imprinted Polymers. An Introductory Polymer Chemistry Laboratory Investigation1374
Gregory T. Rushton, Brian Furmanski, and Ken D. Shimizu
Thermal Degradation and Identification of Heat-Sensitive Polymers. Applications of Pyrolysis and Distillation and Instrumental Methods of Analysis1378
Stuart C. Clough and Emma W. Goldman
Green Chemistry
A Green Polymerization of Aspartic Acid for the Undergraduate Organic Laboratory1380
George D. Bennett
Organic Spectroscopy Laboratory: Utilizing IR and NMR in the Identification of an Unknown Substance1382
Neil M. Glagovich and Timothy D. Shine
NMR Analysis of Unknowns: An Introduction to 2D NMR Spectroscopy1385
David E. Alonso and Steven E. Warren
Monoterpene Unknowns Identified Using IR, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, DEPT, COSY, and HETCOR1387
Lisa T. Alty
Measurement of the Isotopic Ratio of 10B/11B in NaBH4 by 1H NMR1390
Murray Zanger and Guillermo Moyna
Diels–Alder Synthesis of endo-cis-N-Phenylbicyclo[2.2.2]oct-5-en-2,3-dicarboximide1393
Marsha R. Baar and Kristin Wustholz
The Entrance and Exit Effects in Small Electrochemical Filter-Press Reactors Used in the Laboratory1395
Angel Frías-Ferrer, José González-García, Verónica Sáez, Eduardo Expósito, Carlos M. ánchez-Sánchez, Vicente Montiel, Antonio Aldaz, and Frank C. Walsh
Topics in Chemical Instrumentation
A Simple Low-Cost Lock-In Amplifier for the Laboratory1399
Sandip K. Sengupta, Jessica M. Farnham, and James E. Whitten

 Research: Science and Education
Chemical Education Research
"It Gets Me to the Product": How Students Propose Organic Mechanisms1402
Gautam Bhattacharyya and George M. Bodner
Chemical Education Research
The Same or Not the Same: Equivalence as an Issue in Educational Research1408
Scott E. Lewis and Jennifer E. Lewis
Reduction of Iodine by Phosphorus(I): Integration of the Rate Equation1413
Kenneth Kustin and Edward W. Ross

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
Self-Consistent Field Calculations on Atoms Using Excel1418
Gary G. Hoffman
JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
More Interactive Spreadsheets in JCE WebWare 1423
William F. Coleman and Edward W. Fedosky
JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
Self-Consistent Field Calculations Spreadsheet1423
Gary G. Hoffman
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August 2, 2005
August 10, 2005
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