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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2006  > June  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 June 2006
Vol. 83 No. 6

 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Diversity in Science823
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Science—A Social Process825
Diana S. Mason
Reports from Other Journals
Research Advances: Licorice Root Compounds May Help Fight Tooth Decay; Lipopolysaccharides Potential Antibiotic Target; WTA Biosynthesis Breakthrough826
Angela G. King
Reports from Other Journals: The Science Teacher
The Science Teacher: Spring 2006830
Steve Long
Commentary
What Is Your Mental Picture of Ordinary Air?834
Richard W. Ramette and Dale K. Haworth
Ask the Historian
The Origin of the Term Allotrope838
William B. Jensen
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
n-Butyl Alcohol840
Jay A. Young
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Ethyl Bromide841
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements842
The Information Page846
Letters
State Functions vs State Governments847
Todd P. Silverstein
Letters
State Functions vs State Governments847
Harold Leonard
Book and Media Reviews
Success Strategies for Women in Science: A Portable Mentor (Continuing Professional Development Series; Peggy A. Pritchard, ed.)848
Sally Chapman
Book and Media Reviews
The Periodic Table: Into the 21st Century (Dennis H. Rouvray and R. Bruce King, eds.)849
A. Truman Schwartz
Book and Media Reviews
Molecular Modeling: Basic Principles and Applications, 2nd Edition (Hans-Dieter Höltje, Wolfgang Sippl, Didier Rognan, and Gerd Folkers)851
Tracy L. Whitehead
Advertising in This Issue852
Out of the Editor's Basket853

 Chemistry for Everyone
Products of Chemistry
Chemistry of Electronic Gases857
James R. Clark
Products of Chemistry
Lubricating Grease: A Chemical Primer862
Craig J. Donahue
From "Greasy Chemistry" to "Macromolecule": Thoughts on the Historical Development of the Concept of a Macromolecule870
Pedro J. Bernal

 In The Classroom
Interdisciplinary Connections
Report on an Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Philosophy of Chemistry880
Steven Gimbel and Michael Wedlock
JCE Featured Molecules
Lubricating Greases882
William F. Coleman
Do the Series in the Hydrogen Atom Spectrum Ever Overlap?883
David W. Ball
Why Do Two Objects at Different Temperatures Come to a Common Intermediate Temperature When Put in Contact? Entropy Is Maximized.885
Eric A. Gislason and Norman C. Craig
Octachem Model: Organic Chemistry Nomenclature Companion890
Joaquin Palacios
Making the Most of a One-Semester General, Organic, Biochemistry Course: A Novel Integrated Curriculum893
Laura DeLong Frost, S. Todd Deal, and Patricia B. Humphrey
Two-Cycle Organic Chemistry and the Student-Designed Research Lab898
Dennis J. Gravert

 In the Laboratory
Analysis of the Thickening Agents in Automotive Greases by GC–MS902
David Mayotte, Craig J. Donahue, and Cheryl A. Snyder
Complexometric Titration of Aluminum and Magnesium Ions in Commercial Antacids. An Experiment for General and Analytical Chemistry Laboratories906
Shui-Ping Yang and Ruei-Ying Tsai
Infrared Examination of the Transformation of Barium Sulfate into Barium Carbonate. An Inorganic Infrared Qualitative and Quantitative Experiment910
Gene E. Kalbus, Van T. Lieu, and Lee H. Kalbus
Cost-Effective Teacher
A Simple Method for Rapidly Obtaining Absorption Spectra with a Spectronic-20D+ Spectrophotometer913
Jonathan E. Thompson
Cost-Effective Teacher
Construction of a Low-Cost Apparatus for Gas Adsorption on Solids915
Hugo Macedo, Ana Aguiar Ricardo, and João Sotomayor
The Microscale Laboratory
Student Empowerment through "Mini-microscale" Reactions: The Epoxidation of 1 mg of Geraniol919
Thomas R. Hoye and Christopher S. Jeffrey
The Microscale Laboratory
Iodolactonization of 4-Pentenoic Acid 921
R. David Crouch, Alexander Tucker-Schwartz, and Kathryn Barker
The Microscale Laboratory
Enhancements on the Photochromism of 2-(2,4-Dinitrobenzyl)pyridine: Molecular Modeling, NMR Spectrometry, Photo- and Solvent-Bleaching923
Ernest C. McGoran, Kevin Hintz, Kristin Hoffman, and Ramon Iovin
A Simple Combinatorial Experiment Based on Fischer Esterification. An Experiment Suitable for the First-Semester Organic Chemistry Lab927
Peter A. Wade, Susan A. Rutkowsky, and Daniel B. King
Reductive Amination: A Remarkable Experiment for the Organic Laboratory929
Kim M. Touchette
A Sequence of Linked Experiments, Suitable for Practical Courses of Inorganic, Organic, Computational Chemistry, and NMR Spectroscopy931
Grigoriy A. Sereda
Synthesis and Cytotoxic Properties of Chalcones: An Interactive and Investigative Undergraduate Laboratory Project at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology934
John Dickson, Lloyd Flores, Michelle Stewart, Regan LeBlanc, Hari N. Pati, Moses Lee, and Herman Holt
Evaluating the Internal Charge-Transfer in Benzylidene Derivatives of N,N′-Dimethylbarbituric Acid937
Marcos Caroli Rezende, Francisco Jara, and Moisés Domínguez
An Exploration of a Photochemical Pericyclic Reaction Using NMR Data940
Sara M. Hein
Green Chemistry
Mannich Reactions in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids (RTILs): An Advanced Undergraduate Project of Green Chemistry and Structural Elucidation943
Kendrew K. W. Mak, Jane Siu, Y. M. Lai, and Pak-kei Chan

 Research: Science and Education
Chemical Education Research
Undergraduate Pre–Service Teachers' Understandings and Misconceptions of Phase Equilibrium947
Nursen Azizoğlu, Mahir Alkan, and Ömer Geban
Chemical Education Research
Misconceptions about the Particulate Nature of Matter. Using Animations To Close the Gender Gap954
Ellen J. Yezierski and James P. Birk
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