JCE May 2008 (Volume 85 Number 5) Table of Contents


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Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2008 > May >

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May 2008
Vol. 85 No. 5

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Chemical Education Today

Editorial
What Price Quality?		603
	John W. Moore

Especially for High School Teachers
Connect the Dots		605
	Erica K. Jacobsen

Reports from Other Journals: Research Advances
Research Advances: Toward a Faster Prenatal Test for Down Syndrome; Test for Headache-Causing Food Toxins; Hydrogen Storage Materials in Automotive Systems; Newly Solved Structure Reveals How Cells Resist Oxygen Damage		606
	Angela G. King

Report
Prussian Blue: Artists' Pigment and Chemists' Sponge		612
	Mike Ware

Classroom Activity Extension
Using "Blueprint Photography by the Cyanotype Process"		620
	JCE Editorial Staff

Classroom Activity Connections
Chemistry and Children's Literature: Sun Up, Sun Down		622
	Patricia B. McKean

Ask the Historian
The Origin of the Polymer Concept		624
	William B. Jensen

Report
Chemical Education at the Crossroads of America. 20th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, July 27-31, 2008		626
	Steven M. Wietstock, Cathrine Reck, and Regina Zibuck

CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Chloroform		628
	Jay A. Young

CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Dimethyl Sulfoxide		629
	Jay A. Young

News & Announcements		630

Letters
Computer Speed and Avogadro's Number		634
	Paul S. Poskozim

Letters
Potassium Metal Is Explosive—Do Not Use It!		634
	Andreas Grubelnik, Veronika R. Meyer, Peter Bützer, and Urban W. Schönenberger

Letters
Visualizing Statistical Concepts		635
	Robert de Levie

Letters
Reply to Visualizing Statistical Concepts		635
	Myung-Hoon Kim and Maureen Burkart

Letters
Reply to Visualizing Statistical Concepts		637
	William F. Coleman

The Information Page		638

Book & Media Reviews
112 Mercer Street: Einstein, Russell, Gödel, Pauli, and the End of Innocence in Science (Burton Feldman)		639
	Jack K. Steehler

Advertising in This Issue		640

Out of the Editor's Basket		641


Chemistry for Everyone

Field Trips Put Chemistry in Context for Non-Science Majors		645
	Keith E. Peterman


In the Classroom

Using the ACS Journals Search To Validate Assumptions about Writing in Chemistry and Improve Chemistry Writing Instruction		650
	Marin S. Robinson, Fredricka L. Stoller, and James K. Jones

Computer Bulletin Board
Digital Ink: In-Class Annotation of PowerPoint Lectures		655
	Anne E. Johnson

Got Bio? A Short Course Introducing Students to the Applications of Biochemistry		658
	Reid Chamberlain and Amy L. Rogers

Introduction to Protein Structure through Genetic Diseases		662
	Tanya L. Schneider and Brian R. Linton


In the Laboratory

Probing Changes in the Conformation of tRNA^Phe: An Integrated Biochemistry Laboratory Course		666
	Sarah R. Kirk, Todd P. Silverstein, Karen L. McFarlane Holman, and Buck L. H. Taylor

UV Thermal Melting Curves of tRNA^Phe in the Presence of Ligands		674
	Sarah R. Kirk, Todd P. Silverstein, and Karen L. McFarlane Holman

Metal-Catalyzed Cleavage of tRNA^Phe		676
	Sarah R. Kirk, Todd P. Silverstein, and Karen L. McFarlane Holman

Fluorescence Spectroscopy of tRNA^Phe Y Base in the Presence of Mg²⁺ and Small Molecule Ligands		678
	Sarah R. Kirk, Todd P. Silverstein, and Karen L. McFarlane Holman

Observation of DNA Molecules Using Fluorescence Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy. An Undergraduate Instrumental Analysis Laboratory Experiment		680
	Takashi Ito

Size Exclusion Chromatography: An Experiment for High School and Community College Chemistry and Biotechnology Laboratory Programs		683
	Linda S. Brunauer and Kathryn K. Davis

A Simple Laboratory Experiment To Determine the Kinetics of Mutarotation of D-Glucose Using a Blood Glucose Meter		686
	Carlos E. Perles and Pedro L. O. Volpe

Stereochemical Control in Carbohydrate Chemistry		689
	Rhys Batchelor, Peter T. Northcote, Joanne E. Harvey, Emma M. Dangerfield, and Bridget L. Stocker

Use of the Chemical Literature as a Template To Probe Stereoselective Reactions by NMR		692
	Thomas P. Clausen, Thomas K. Green, and Benjamin Steiner

Acylation, Diastereoselective Alkylation, and Cleavage of an Oxazolidinone Chiral Auxiliary. A Multistep Asymmetric Synthesis Experiment for Advanced Undergraduates		695
	Thomas E. Smith, David P. Richardson, George A. Truran, Katherine Belecki, and Megumi Onishi

The Microscale Laboratory
Mosher Amides: Determining the Absolute Stereochemistry of Optically-Active Amines		698
	Damian A. Allen, Anthony E. Tomaso, Jr., Owen P. Priest, David F. Hindson, and Jamie L. Hurlburt


Research: Science and Education

The Same and Not the Same: Chirality, Topicity, and Memory of Chirality		701
	Wolfgang H. Kramer and Axel G. Griesbeck

Concomitant Ordering and Symmetry Lowering		710
	William O. J. Boo and Daniell L. Mattern

Chemical Education Research
The Effects of a Two-Year Molecular Visualization Experience on Teachers' Attitudes, Content Knowledge, and Spatial Ability		718
	Vickie M. Williamson and Thomas J. José

Chemical Education Research
Degree of Mathematics Fluency and Success in Second-Semester Introductory Chemistry		724
	Doreen Geller Leopold and Barbara Edgar

Zeroth Law, Entropy, Equilibrium, and All That		732
	Sebastian G. Canagaratna

A-DNA and B-DNA: Comparing Their Historical X-ray Fiber Diffraction Images		737
	Amand A. Lucas


On the Web

Modeling Ion Channels Using Poisson–Nernst–Planck Theory as an Integrated Approach To Introducing Nanotechnology Concepts: The PNP Cyclic Peptide Ion Channel Model		744
	Brian Radak, Hyonseok Hwang, and George C. Schatz

JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
Population versus Sampling Statistics. A Spreadsheet Exercise		749
	Ken Overway

JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
Visualizing Metal Tris Chelates. Visualizations to Examine the Structure and Symmetry of Metal Tris Chelates: Symmetry Operations, Chirality, and Mechanisms (Bailar Twist and Rây-Dutt) that Racemize the Δ and Λ Isomers		750
	Marion E. Cass and Henry S. Rzepa

JCE Featured Molecules
Molecular Models of Reactants and Products from an Asymmetric Synthesis of a Chiral Carboxylic Acid		752
	William F. Coleman

JCE Resources
Chemistry and Art		Web1

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