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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2009  > April  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 April 2009
Vol. 86 No. 4

 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Are We Really Teaching Science?411
John W. Moore
Teacher Talk
A Nobel Gift412
George Sellers
Especially for High School Teachers
Changes—Why Consider Them?413
Laura E. Slocum
Reports from Other Journals: Research Advances
Research Advances. Revealing Secrets of "African Sleeping Sickness"; New Synthesis Approach, More Durable and Elastic Material?414
Angela G. King
Commentary
Chlorine: Undergraduate Research on an Element of Controversy418
Hasok Chang
Ask the Historian
The Origin of the Circle Symbol for Aromaticity423
William B. Jensen
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Phthalic Acid Anhydride425
Jay A. Young
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Phthalic Acid426
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements427
Letters
Conductivity431
Stephen J. Hawkes
Letters
Where Is Ozone in the Frost Diagram?432
Fernando Villafañe
Letters
Surfactant Adsorption Parameters from Surface Tension Measurements433
Mário N. Berberan-Santos
Letters
Reply to: Surfactant Adsorption Parameters from Surface Tension Measurements433
John Hagen
The Information Page434
Book & Media Reviews
Chemistry in the National Science Education Standards: Models for Meaningful Learning in the High School Chemistry Classroom, 2nd Edition (Stacey Lowery Bretz, Ed.)435
Brittland K. DeKorver
Book & Media Reviews
Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right (Richard Rothstein, Rebecca Jacobsen, and Tamara Wilder)437
Wheeler Conover
Advertising in This Issue438
Out of the Editor's Basket439

 Chemistry for Everyone
Secondary School Chemistry
The Chemical Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Mrs. Hudson's Golden Brooch443
Ken Shaw
Amazing Chemical Anagrams449
Andrew P. Dicks

 In the Classroom
Enthalpy Costs of Making and Breaking Bonds: A Game of Generating Molecules with Proper Lewis Structures450
Peter T. Bell, Alyssa D. Adkins, Rex Gamble, and Linda D. Schultz
"Which Pathway Am I?" Using a Game Approach To Teach Students about Biochemical Pathways454
Beng Guat Ooi and Michael J. Sanger
Biochemistry Wordsearches II456
Terry L. Helser
Prote-ACE. A Logic Puzzle To Determine a Polypeptide Sequence457
Craig P. McClure
Zen Hot Dog Molecules458
Dennis Ryan
Teaching with Technology
Using the Cambridge Structural Database To Teach Molecular Geometry Concepts in Organic Chemistry460
Jay Wm. Wackerly, Philip A. Janowicz, Joshua A. Ritchey, Mary M. Caruso, Erin L. Elliott, and Jeffrey S. Moore
JCE Classroom Activity
[#101] The Secret of Smart Paper464A
Lynn Diener, Brian McCall, and J. Aura Gimm
JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
Hydrogen and Palladium Foil: Two Classroom Demonstrations465
Elsbeth Klotz and Bruce Mattson
JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
Small-Scale Production of High-Density Dry Ice: A Variant Combination of Two Classic Demonstrations470
Paul A. Flowers

 In the Laboratory
Imploding Soda Cans: From Demonstration to Guided-Inquiry Laboratory Activity472
Jack F. Eichler
The Microscale Laboratory
Preparation of Oil of Wintergreen from Commercial Aspirin Tablets475
Aaron M. Hartel and James M. Hanna Jr.
JCE Concept Connections
Using Aspirin as a Teaching Tool476
Liana Lamont
Molecular Modeling Exercises and Experiments
Conformational Analysis of Drug Molecules: A Practical Exercise in the Medicinal Chemistry Course477
Elizabeth Yuriev, David Chalmers, and Ben Capuano
Analysis of Dextromethorphan in Cough Drops and Syrups: A Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory479
T. M. Hamilton and Frank L. Wiseman Jr.
A Two-Step Synthesis of Virstatin, A Virulence Inhibitor of Vibrio cholerae482
Chriss E. McDonald
Investigation of Unexpected Reaction Intermediates in the Alkaline Hydrolysis of Methyl 3,5-Dinitrobenzoate484
Clésia C. Silva, Ricardo O. Silva, Daniela M. A. F. Navarro, and Marcelo Navarro
Green Chemistry
Greener Solutions for the Organic Chemistry Teaching Lab: Exploring the Advantages of Alternative Reaction Media488
Lallie C. McKenzie, Lauren M. Huffman, James E. Hutchison, Courtney E. Rogers, Thomas E. Goodwin, and Gary O. Spessard
Spectrophotometric Determination of Iron(III)–Glycine Formation Constant in Aqueous Medium Using Competitive Ligand Binding494
Rajendra Prasad and Surendra Prasad

 Research: Science and Education
Chemical Education Research
Incrementally Approaching an Inquiry Lab Curriculum: Can Changing a Single Laboratory Experiment Improve Student Performance in General Chemistry?498
Kristen L. Cacciatore and Hannah Sevian
Using Student-Developed, Inquiry-Based Experiments To Investigate the Contributions of Ca and Mg to Water Hardness506
Shui-Ping Yang and Chung-Chia Li
The Adverse Effects of Le Châtelier's Principle on Teacher Understanding of Chemical Equilibrium514
Derek Cheung
Absence of SN1 Involvement in the Solvolysis of Secondary Alkyl Compounds519
Thomas J. Murphy

 On the Web
Computer Bulletin Board
Using Web-Based Resources To Incorporate LabVIEW into an Instrumental Analysis Course525
Mark B. Jensen
JCE Featured Molecules
Molecular Models of Pharmaceuticals. Cholera Drugs and a Cough Suppressant528
William F. Coleman
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