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February 2006
Vol. 83 No. 2


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Using JCE Resources Effectively183
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Hear, Hear!185
Erica K. Jacobsen
Reports from Other Journals
Research Advances: Eating Clay?; Look to Soil for New Leads in Arthritis Treatment; The Fate of Tetracyclines186
Angela G. King
Report
2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Development of the Olefin Metathesis Method in Organic Synthesis192
Charles P. Casey
Reports from Other Journals: Nature
Nature: Gifts from Mother Earth—The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 196
Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon C. Cannon
Chemists Celebrate Earth Day 2006: Dig It! JCE Resources for Chemistry and Soils199
Erica K. Jacobsen
Reports from Other Journals
News from Online: Digging Up Earth Day Resources201
Bernadette Caldwell
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Selenium206
Jay A. Young
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Arsenic(III) Chloride207
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements209
The Information Page212
Letters
The History of Element 43—Technetium213
Fathi Habashi
Letters
The History of Element 43—Technetium213
Roberto Zingales
Letters
How Radioactive Are You?214
I. A. Leenson
Letters
Steel Wool and Oxygen: How Constant Should a Rate Constant Be?214
Michiel Vogelezang
Book and Media Reviews
Drug Discovery: A History (Walter Sneader)215
David J. A. Schedler
Book and Media Reviews
Glowing Genes: A Revolution in Biotechnology (Marc Zimmer)215
Vicky Minderhout
Book and Media Reviews
Environmental Chemistry, 3rd edition (Colin Baird and Michael Cann)217
Richard Pagni
Advertising in This Issue218
Out of the Editor's Basket219

 Chemistry for Everyone
If It's Resonance, What Is Resonating?223
Robert C. Kerber

 In The Classroom
Using Punnett Squares To Facilitate Students' Understanding of Isotopic Distributions in Mass Spectrometry228
Lawrence T. Sein Jr.
An Interactive Environmental Science Course for Education Science Majors233
Suzanne K. Lunsford and William Slattery
JCE Featured Molecules
Catalysts from the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry236
William F. Coleman
Use of Physicochemical Parameters To Assess the Environmental Fate of Organic Pollutants: The Fugacity Model237
Xavier Domènech, José Antonio Ayllón, and José Peral
JCE Classroom Activity
Soil Testing: Dig In!240A
Linda Fanis and Erica K. Jacobsen

 In the Laboratory
Secondary School Chemistry
The Extraction and Isolation of Saltpeter from Nitered Soil. A Curriculum Alignment Project for a First-Year High School Chemistry Course241
Brett Criswell
Analysis of Iron in Lawn Fertilizer: A Sampling Study243
Michael A. Jeannot
Reducing the Use of Agrochemicals: A Simple Experiment 245
M. M. Vidal, Olga M. S. Filipe, and M. C. Cruz Costa
Linking Laboratory Experiences to the Real World: The Extraction of Octylphenoxyacetic Acid from Water248
Jorge E. Loyo-Rosales, Alba Torrents, Georgina C. Rosales-Rivera, and Clifford P. Rice
An Environmentally Focused General Chemistry Laboratory250
Morgan Mihok, Joseph T. Keiser, Jacqueline M. Bortiatynski, and Thomas E. Mallouk
A New Project-Based Lab for Undergraduate Environmental and Analytical Chemistry253
Gianpiero Adami
Preparation and Viscosity of Biodiesel from New and Used Vegetable Oil. An Inquiry-Based Environmental Chemistry Laboratory 257
Nathan R. Clarke, John Patrick Casey, Earlene D. Brown, Ezenwa Oneyma, and Kelley J. Donaghy
Determination of the Heat of Combustion of Biodiesel Using Bomb Calorimetry. A Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Chemistry Experiment260
Stephen M. Akers, Jeremy L. Conkle, Stephanie N. Thomas, and Keith B. Rider
Fine-Structure Measurements of Oxygen A Band Absorbance for Estimating the Thermodynamic Average Temperature of the Earth's Atmosphere. An Experiment in Physical and Environmental Chemistry263
M. L. Myrick, A. E. Greer, A. Nieuwland, R. J. Priore, J. Scaffidi, Danielle Andreatta, and Paula Colavita
A Simple Parallel Photochemical Reactor for Photodecomposition Studies265
Xiaobo Chen, Sarah M. Halasz, Eric C. Giles, Jessica V. Mankus, Joseph C. Johnson, and Clemens Burda
Environmentally Responsible Redox Chemistry: An Example of Convenient Oxidation Methodology without Chromium Waste268
Robyn L. Crumbie
Green Chemistry
Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of a Natural Insecticide on Basic Montmorillonite K10 Clay. Green Chemistry in the Undergraduate Organic Laboratory270
Matthew R. Dintzner, Paul R. Wucka, and Thomas W. Lyons
Assaying α-Dicarbonyl Compounds in Wine: A Complementary GC–MS, HPLC, and Visible Spectrophotometric Analysis273
Tammy J. Dwyer and Jeremiah D. Fillo
An Improved Flame Test for Qualitative Analysis Using a Multichannel UV–Visible Spectrophotometer277
Jonathan P. Blitz, Daniel J. Sheeran, and Thomas L. Becker
Introduction to the Design and Optimization of Experiments Using Response Surface Methodology. A Gas Chromatography Experiment for the Instrumentation Laboratory280
Patricia L. Lang, Benjamin I. Miller, and Abigail Tuttle Nowak
Grubbs's Cross Metathesis of Eugenol with cis-2-Butene-1,4-diol To Make a Natural Product. An Organometallic Experiment for the Undergraduate Lab 283
Douglass F. Taber and Kevin J. Frankowski
Synthesis of Methyl Diantilis, a Commercially Important Fragrance285
William H. Miles and Katelyn B. Connell
The Microscale Laboratory
Convenient Microscale Synthesis of a Coumarin Laser Dye Analog287
Evangelos Aktoudianakis and Andrew P. Dicks
A Multistep Synthesis for an Advanced Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory290
Chang Ji and Dennis G. Peters
4-Dimethylaminopyridine or Acid-Catalyzed Syntheses of Esters: A Comparison292
Annemieke W. C. van den Berg and Ulf Hanefeld
The Binding Constant of Estradiol to Bovine Serum Albumin. An Upper-Level Experiment Utilizing Tritium-Labeled Estradiol and Liquid Scintillation Counting294
Peihong Liang, Bhavin Adhyaru, Wright L. Pearson, and Kathryn R. Williams
Dynamic NMR of Intramolecular Exchange Processes in EDTA Complexes of Sc3+, Y3+, and La3+296
Yong Ba, Steven Han, Lily Ni, Tony Su, and Andres Garcia

 Research: Science and Education
Effectiveness of a Workshop To Encourage Action: Evaluation from a Post-Workshop Survey299
Scott E. Lewis and Jennifer E. Lewis
Chemical Education Research
Comparing Faculty and Student Perspectives of Graduate Teaching Assistants' Teaching305
Romola A. Bernard Rodriques and Janet Bond-Robinson
Chemical Education Research
Catalyzing Graduate Teaching Assistants' Laboratory Teaching through Design Research313
Janet Bond-Robinson and Romola A. Bernard Rodriques
Addressing the Philosophical Confusion Regarding Constructivism in Chemical Education324
Pedro J. Bernal

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Spreadsheet Modeling of Electron Distributions in Solids327
Wingfield Glassey
Chemical Information Instructor
Incorporating Chemical Information Instruction and Environmental Science into the First-Year Organic Chemistry Laboratory334
R. G. Landolt
JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
Using Jmol To Help Students Better Understand Fluxional Processes 336
William F. Coleman and Edward W. Fedosky
JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
Mechanisms That Interchange Axial and Equatorial Atoms in Fluxional Processes: Illustration of the Berry Pseudorotation, the Turnstile, and the Lever Mechanisms via Animation of Transition State Normal Vibrational Modes336
Marion E. Cass, King Kuok Hii, and Henry S. Rzepa
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