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January 2008
Vol. 85 No. 1

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Chemical Education Today

Editorial
If You Seek a Useful Journal, Look About You!		11
	John W. Moore

Reports from Other Journals
Research Advances: Explosive Discovery on Genetically Engineered Tobacco Plant; New Explosives Prove Unusually Touchy; New Technology for Tracking Down Builders of Homemade Bombs		12
	Angela King

Especially for High School Teachers
Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome		13
	Erica K. Jacobsen

Classroom Activity Connections
Soda Can Density and Unexpected Results		18
	Erica K. Jacobsen, Donald R. Paulson, and Michael J. Sanger

Association Report: ACS Education Division
What Goes into Good Web Design? A Report on the New ACS Web Site		20
	Adam Boyd and Natasha Bruce

Volume 85: Celebrating Journal Milestones
The New Periodic Table Live!		22

Volume 85: Celebrating Journal Milestones
The Chemical Education Digital Library		23

Award Address
Advice to My Intellectual Grandchildren		24
	J. Dudley Herron

Volume 85: Celebrating Journal Milestones
All Back Issues Are Now Available!		25

Volume 85: Celebrating Journal Milestones
Explore the Hidden JCE—Go Online!		27

Association Report: ACS Division of Chemical Education
Committee Reports, October 2007		34

CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
n-Amyl Alcohol		42
	Jay A. Young

CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
tert-Amyl Alcohol		43
	Jay A. Young

News & Announcements		44

Letters
What's Wrong with Cookbooks?		47
	Gail Horowitz

Letters
Determining the Pressure inside an Intact Carbonated Beverage Can		47
	Leslie Glasser

The Information Page		48

Einstein: His Life and Universe (Walter Isaacson)		49
	A. Truman Schwartz

Advertising in This Issue		50

Out of the Editor's Basket		51


Chemistry for Everyone

Using Popular Magazine Articles To Teach the Art of Writing for Nontechnical Audiences		55
	John D. Sivey and Cindy M. Lee

A Bright Spark: Open Teaching of Science Using Faraday's Lectures on Candles		59
	Mark Walker, Martin Gröger, Kirsten Schlüter, and Bernd Mosler

The Different Periodic Tables of Dmitrii Mendeleev		63
	Michael Laing


In the Classroom

JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
Electrochemical Polishing of Silverware: A Demonstration of Voltaic and Galvanic Cells		68
	Michelle M. Ivey and Eugene T. Smith

JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
Similarity and Difference in the Behavior of Gases: An Interactive Demonstration		72
	Guy Ashkenazi

An Experimental Approach to Teaching and Learning Elementary Statistical Mechanics		78
	Frank B. Ellis and David C. Ellis

Six Pillars of Organic Chemistry		83
	Joseph J. Mullins

A Simple Assignment That Enhances Students' Ability To Solve Organic Chemistry Synthesis Problems and Understand Mechanisms		88
	Jennifer Teixeira and R. W. Holman

Use of the Primitive Unit Cell in Understanding Subtle Features of the Cubic Close-Packed Structure		90
	John A. Hawkins, Linda M. Soper, Jeffrey L. Rittenhouse, and Robert C. Rittenhouse


In the Laboratory

Using Two-Dimensional Colloidal Crystals To Understand Crystallography		93
	Stephanie A. Bosse and Nikolaus M. Loening

Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) Polymerization in Undergraduate Polymer Science Lab		97
	T. L. U. Nguyen, Francesca Bennet, Martina H. Stenzel, and Christopher Barner-Kowollik

A Discovery-Based Experiment Involving Rearrangement in the Conversion of Alcohols to Alkyl Halides. Permanent Magnet ¹³C NMR in the First-Semester Organic Chemistry Lab		100
	Richard A. Kjonaas and Ryand J. F. Tucker

The Microscale Laboratory
Regioselectivity in Organic Synthesis: Preparation of the Bromohydrin of α-Methylstyrene		102
	Brad Andersh, Kathryn N. Kilby, Meghan E. Turnis, and Drew L. Murphy

Extensions of a Basic Laboratory Experiment: [4+2] and [2+2] Cycloadditions		104
	Hazem Y. Amarne, Alex D. Bain, Karen Neumann, and Paul M. Zelisko

Cost-Effective Teacher
Variable Temperature Equipment for a Commercial Magnetic Susceptibility Balance		107
	Albert Lötz

Introduction of Differential Scanning Calorimetry in a General Chemistry Laboratory Course: Determination of Heat Capacity of Metals and Demonstration of the Law of Dulong and Petit		109
	Ronald P. D'Amelia, Vincent Stracuzzi, and William F. Nirode

A Simple Rate Law Experiment Using a Custom-Built Isothermal Heat Conduction Calorimeter		112
	Lars Wadsö and Xi Li

Lysozyme Thermal Denaturation and Self-Interaction: Four Integrated Thermodynamic Experiments for the Physical Chemistry Laboratory		117
	Jeffrey J. Schwinefus, Christopher A. Clark, Nathaniel J. Schaefle, Gregory W. Muth, and Gary L. Miessler

Observation and Analysis of N₂O Rotation–Vibration Spectra. A Physical Chemistry Laboratory Experiment		121
	Mark S. Bryant, Scott W. Reeve, and William A. Burns

Electrochromic WO₃ Films: Nanotechnology Experiments in Instrumental Analysis and Physical Chemistry Laboratories		125
	Maria Hepel

Electroanalytical and Spectroscopic Studies of Poly(2,2′–bithiophene)-Modified Platinum Electrode To Detect Catechol in the Presence of Ascorbic Acid		128
	S. K. Lunsford, Nicole Speelman, Jelynn Stinson, Amber Yeary, Justyna Widera, Hyeok Choi, and Dionysios D. Dionysiou

Tangential Ultrafiltration of Aqueous Saccharomyces cerevisiae Suspensions		130
	Carlos M. Silva, Patrícia S. Neves, M. F. J. Eusébio, Francisco A. Da Silva, and Ana M.R.B. Xavier

Analysis of Peppermint Leaf and Spearmint Leaf Extracts by Thin-Layer Chromatography		133
	Libbie S. W. Pelter, Andrea Amico, Natalie Gordon, Chylah Martin, Dessalyn Sandifer, and Michael W. Pelter

Introducing Chemometrics to the Analytical Curriculum: Combining Theory and Lab Experience		135
	Michael K. Gilbert, Robert D. Luttrell, David Stout, and Frank Vogt


Research: Science and Education

Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
Teaching Analytical Method Development in an Undergraduate Instrumental Analysis Course		138
	Katherine C. Lanigan

Reaction Order Ambiguity in Integrated Rate Plots		141
	Joe Lee

The Role of the Laboratory in Chemistry Instruction		145
	M. J. Elliott, K. K. Stewart, and J. J. Lagowski

Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
On the Relative Merits of Non-Orthogonal and Orthogonal Valence Bond Methods Illustrated on the Hydrogen Molecule		150
	Celestino Angeli, Renzo Cimiraglia, and Jean-Paul Malrieu


On the Web

JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
Quantum Chemistry: Restricted Hartree-Fock SCF Calculations Using Microsoft Excel		159
	Taylor R. Page, Cortney A. Boots, and Mark A. Freitag

JCE Featured Molecules
Molecular Models of Leaf Extracts		160
	William F. Coleman

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