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Cover
December 1999
Vol. 76 No. 12


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Do You Realize That in the Year 2000...1605
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers1607
J. Emory Howell
Reports from Other Journals
News from Online: The Environment1608
Carolyn Sweeney Judd
Commentary
A Modest Question: What Does It Mean to Be a Professor?1610
Robert L. Lichter
Commentary
The Structure of Chemistry1612
Roy W. Clark
From Past Issues
Prove All Things; Hold Fast That Which is Good1614
Richard E. Rice
Teaching Nontraditional Students1615
John G. Shiber
NSF Highlights
Incorporation of FT-NMR throughout the Chemistry Curriculum1617
D. Scott Davis and Dale E. Moore
Letters1622
Book and Media Reviews
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life (by Parker J. Palmer)1625
reviewed by Catherine Hurt Middlecamp
Information Page1626
Book and Media Reviews
A Fifty-Year Love Affair with Organic Chemistry (by William S. Johnson)1627
reviewed by George B. Kauffman and Laurie M. Kauffman
Book and Media Reviews
A Guide to the Elements, Rev. Edition (by Albert Stwertka)1628
reviewed by Daniel Berger
Book and Media Reviews
Learning Style Perspectives: Impact in the Classroom (by Lynne Celli Sarasin)1629
reviewed by Jeffrey Kovac
Book and Media Reviews
Techniques and Experiments for Organic Chemistry, 6th Edition (by Addison Ault)1629
reviewed by Karen C. Inman
Advertising in This Issue1630

 In The Classroom
Using TOPEX Satellite El Niño Altimetry Data to Introduce Thermal Expansion and Heat Capacity Concepts in Chemistry Courses1635
Harvey F. Blanck
Bringing State-of-the-Art, Applied, Novel, Green Chemistry to the Classroom by Employing the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards1639
Michael C. Cann
Learning Quality Assurance/Quality Control Using U.S. EPA Techniques. An Undergraduate Course for Environmental Chemistry Majors1642
Susan M. Libes
Constructing Environmental Impact Statements. An Organizational Focus for Teaching Analytical Environmental Chemistry1649
Susan M. Libes
Citrate as a Flying Bird: Useful Mnemonics in Teaching the TCA Cycle1656
Evguenii I. Kozliak
Tested Demonstrations
Environmental Chemistry Using Ultrasound1657
Belinda K. Wilmer, Edward Poziomek, and Grazyna E. Orzechowska

 Chemistry Everyday For Everyone
Products of Chemistry
Applications of Biocatalysis to Industrial Processes1658
John T. Sime
Dioxin, Not Doomsday1662
Jeffrey M. Zimpleman
Campus Environmental Resource Assessment Projects for Non-Science Majors1667
Amy M. Shachter and Janice S. Edgerly
The Bridge of Mandolin County1671
Juliette M. Lantz, Jenny E. Feindt, Eric P. B. Lewellyn, and Mary M. Walczak

 In the Laboratory
Pesticides in Drinking Water: Project-Based Learning within the Introductory Chemistry Curriculum1673
Patricia B. O'Hara, Jon A. Sanborn, and Meredith Howard
Removal of Heavy Metals from Water: An Environmentally Significant Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Experiment1678
Brian P. Buffin
Remediation of Water Contaminated with an Azo Dye: An Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment Utilizing an Inexpensive Photocatalytic Reactor1680
John A. Bumpus, Jennifer Tricker, Ken Andrzejewski, Heather Rhoads, and Matthew Tatarko
The Microscale Laboratory
Microscale Chemistry and Green Chemistry: Complementary Pedagogies1684
Mono M. Singh, Zvi Szafran, and R. M. Pike
The Microscale Laboratory
Microscale Transformations of Some Lead Compounds. A Cycle for Lead Minimizing the Production of Wastes1687
Francisco J. Arnáiz and María R. Pedrosa
JCE Classroom Activity
Colors to Dye for: Preparation of Natural Dyes1688A
A Brine Shrimp Bioassay for Measuring Toxicity and Remediation of Chemicals1689
Marya Lieberman
Separation of Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons Using 2-Dimensional Thin-Layer Chromatography. An Environmental Chemistry Experiment1691
Geoffrey T. Crisp and Natalie M. Williamson
Chemical Analysis of Soils: An Environmental Chemistry Laboratory for Undergraduate Science Majors1693
Joan D. Willey, G. Brooks Avery Jr., John J. Manock, Stephen A. Skrabal, and Charles F. Stehman
Topics in Chemical Instrumentation
Analysis of Semivolatile Organic Compounds in Fuels Using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry1695
Tal M. Nahir
Laboratory Application and Demonstration of Automotive Oxygen Sensors1697
T. Schober and J. Friedrich
An Undergraduate Field Experiment for Measuring Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke in Indoor Environments1700
Adam M. Marsella, Jiping Huang, David A. Ellis, and Scott A. Mabury
Greenhouse Warming Potentials from the Infrared Spectroscopy of Atmospheric Gases1702
Matthew J. Elrod
Identifying Softwoods and Hardwoods by Infrared Spectroscopy1706
Brady Barker and Noel L. Owen
Chromatographic Separations Using Solid-Phase Extraction Cartridges: Separation of Wine Phenolics1710
Charles A. Brenneman and Susan E. Ebeler
An Alternative Procedure for the Glucose Oxidase Assay of Glucose as Applied to the Lactase Activity Assay1711
T. Corbin Mullis, Jeffery T. Winge, and S. Todd Deal
A Simple and Efficient Ozone Generator1712
Debra J. Sponholtz, Michael A. Walters, Jimmy Tung, and Joseph J. BelBruno
An Experiment to Demonstrate How a Catalyst Affects the Rate of a Reaction1714
Christine L. Copper and Edward Koubek
Synthesis of Derivatives of (1R)-(-)- and (1S)-(+)-10-Camphorsulfonic Acid1715
Steven C. Cermak and David F. Wiemer
The Hofmann Rearrangement Using Household Bleach: Synthesis of 3-Nitroaniline1717
Keith A. Monk and Ram S. Mohan

 Research: Science and Education
Organizing Organic Reactions: The Importance of Antibonding Orbitals1718
David E. Lewis
Trigonometric Basis Set Functions: Their Application to the C-H Stretching and Deformation Motions of Benzene and to Orbital Symmetry1723
G. Bor and Sidney F. A. Kettle
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
The Use of Calculated Species Distribution Diagrams to Analyze Thermodynamic Selectivity1727
Antonio Bianchi and Enrique Garcia-España

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
A Comment on Molecular Geometry 1732
Frank J. Gomba
JCE Online
There Has to Be a Better Way to...1735
Jon L. Holmes
JCE Software
Journal of Chemical Education on CD-ROM, 19991736
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