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December 1997
Vol. 74 No. 12


 Chemical Education Today
In This Issue1377
Editorial
Making the Future Ours1381
John W. Moore
News from Journal House
News from Journal House1382
Especially for High School Teachers
Especially for High School Teachers1383
J. Emory Howell
Letters
Assessment of Knowledge1384
Francisco J. Arnaiz
Letters
Redox Rap1384
Dean Ellerton
Letters
Correction to J. Chem. Educ. 1997, 74, 1117-11211384
Lynn Thompson, Hans Veening, and Timothy G. Strein
Letters
Correction to J. Chem. Educ. 1997, 74, 1055-1059 1384
Martin B. Hocking
Announcements
Announcements1386
Chemistry Behind the News
Chemistry in the News: 1997 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Medicine1388
Association Reports
What Is Undergraduate Research?1390
Judith A. Halstead
Association Reports
Opening College Doors to All Americans: Excerpts from Remarks at San Jacinto Community College1392
Bill Clinton
Reports from Other Journals
News from Online1394
Carolyn Sweeney Judd
Association Reports
Report from ACS Division of Chemical Education1395
Jerry L. Sarquis
Letters
Egg in the Bottle Revisted1396
Viktor Obendrauf
Letters
Egg in the Bottle Revisted - the author replies1396
Doris Kolb
Letters
About Letters to the Editor1396
Inorganic Chemistry: An Industrial and Environmental Perspective (by T. W. Swaddle)1399
Jay H. Worrell
The Chemistry Maths Book (by Erich Steiner) 1400
C. Michael McCallum
Organic Chemistry: A Comprehensive Degree Text and Source Book, 22nd ed. (by Hans Beyer (dec.) and Wolfgang Walter)1400
John C. Cochran
Eilhard Mitscherlich: Prince of Prussian Chemistry (by Hans-Werner Scuhtt)1402
Istvan Hargittai
Risky Business (by Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young)1402
Armen S. Casparian
Book Notes: Color Atlas of Biochemistry (by Jan Koolman and Klaus-Heinrich Rohm) 1402
Edward J. Walsh
Book Notes: Heterocyclic Chemistry, 3rd ed. (by Thomas L. Gilchrist)1404
Edward J. Walsh

 Chemistry Everyday For Everyone
View from My Classroom
Integrating High School Chemistry with Environmental Studies and Research1409
Jack Randall
NSF Highlights
Our Microscopic Universe: An Interdisciplinary Course Examining Natural Phenomena Using Geology, Physics, and Chemistry1411
Susan A. Jansen-Varnum
A Chemist's Gift Guide1412
Ralph Shaw

 In The Classroom
A Discussion of Water Pollution in the United States and Mexico; with High School Laboratory Activities for the Analysis of Lead, Atrazine, and Nitrate1413
Paul B. Kelter, Julie Grundman, David S. Hage, James D. Carr, and Carlos Mauricio Castro-Acuña
Overhead Projector Demonstrations
Complexometric Titrations: Competition of Complexing Agents in the Determination of Water Hardness with EDTA1422
M. Cecilia Yappert and Donald B. DuPre
Tested Demonstrations
Acid Rain Demonstration: The Formation of Nitrogen Oxides as a By-Product of High-Temperature Flames in Connection with Internal Combustion Engines1424
Jerry A. Driscoll
Consultancy in the Classroom: Using Industrial Chemistry in a Teaching Exercise1426
Geraldine A. Ottewill and Frank C. Walsh
Interdisciplinary Project-Based Learning through an Environmental Water Quality Study1431
Lorie Juhl, Kaye Yearsley, and Andrew J. Silva
Safety Tips
Chemical Education for Toxic Substance Control1434
Paul Tomboulian and Katie Parrot

 In the Laboratory
Environmental Projects in the Quantitative Analysis Lab1437
Jeffrey D. Weidenhamer
Assessing the Fate of Organic Contaminants in Aquatic Environments: Mechanism and Kinetics of Hydrolysis of a Carboxylic Ester1440
Jorg Klausen, Markus A. Meier , and Rene P. Schwarzenbach
Voltammetric Determination of Ni and Co in Water Samples1444
Jose Alberto Herrera-Melian, Jose Miguel Dona-Rodriguez, Joaquin Hernandez-Brito, and Jesus Perez Pena
Oil Spill Remediation Using Magnetic Particles: An Experiment in Environmental Technology1446
John D. Orbell, Leroy Godhino, Stephen W. Bigger, Thi Man Nguyen, and Lawrence N. Ngeh
The Microscale Laboratory
Laboratory Experiments on Electrochemical Remediation of the Environment. Part 2: Microscale Indirect Electrolytic Destruction of Organic Wastes1449
Jorge G. Ibanez, M. M. Singh, R. M. Pike, and Z. Szafran
Kinetics of p-Nitrophenol Degradation by Pseudomonas sp.: An Experiment Illustrating Bioremediation1451
Michelle H. Duong, Samuel L. Penrod, and Stanley B. Grant
Carbon Dioxide Dissolution as a Relaxation Process: A Kinetics Experiment for Physical Chemistry1455
Peter G. Bowers, Mordecai B. Rubin, Richard M. Noyes, and Dagmar Andueza
JCE Classroom Activity
Rain, Lakes, and Streams - Investigating Acidity and Buffering Capacity in the Environment1456A
Judith A. Halstead
Illustration of Deviations in the Beer-Lambert Law in an Instrumental Analysis Laboratory: Measuring Atmospheric Pollutants by Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometry1459
Heather C. Allen, Theo Brauers, and Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts
Complexometric Titration of Zinc: An Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Experiment1463
S. G. Novick
Acetone and Ethyl Acetate in Commercial Nail Polish Removers: A Quantitative NMR Experiment Using an Internal Standard1464
David W. Clarke
The Diels-Alder Reaction of 2,4-Hexadien-1-ol with Maleic Anhydride: A Novel Preparation for the Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory Course1465
Keith F. McDaniel and R. Matthew Weekly
Investigation of Atropisomerism in ortho-Substituted Tetraphenylporphyrins: An Experimental Module Involving Synthesis, Chromatography, and NMR Spectroscopy1468
Ruth Freitag Beeston, Shannon E. Stitzel , and Mitchell A. Rhea
Photosensitized Peroxidation of Lipids: An Experiment Using 1H-NMR1471
Marion W. Smith, Renee Brown, Steven Smullin, and Jon Eager
Following Glycolysis Using 13C NMR: An Experiment Adaptable to Different Undergraduate Levels1474
T. L. Mega, C. B. Carlson, and D. A. Cleary
Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Nitrogen Spin-Spin Coupling in NMR Spectroscopy: Simple Examples Based on Isotope-Labeled Glycines1477
Leif Grehn, Ulf Ragnarsson, and Christopher J. Welch

 Research: Science and Education
Useful Examples for Discussion of Proton-NMR Spectroscopy: N-Substituted alpha-Aminobenzenebutanenitriles-Anisotropy of Diastereotopic Methylene Protons1479
John Almy, R. Martinez Alverez, A. Herrera Fernandez, and A. Sanchez Vazquez
A General Approach for Calculating Proton Chemical Shifts for Methyl, Methylene and Methine Protons When There Are One or More Substituents within Three Carbons1483
Philip S. Beauchamp and Rodolfo Marquez
False AA'X Spin-Spin Coupling Systems in 13C NMR: Examples Involving Phosphorus and a 20-Year-Old Mystery in Off-Resonance Decoupling1485
William H. Hersh

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Computer Bulletin Board
Educational NMR Software1489
Peter Lundberg
Computer Bulletin Board
Using Maple To Obtain Analytic Expressions in Physical Chemistry1491
Sean A. C. McDowell
Wohler's Urea Synthesis: Modern Version1493
George B. Kauffman and Steven H. Chooljian
The Mechanism of Covalent Bonding1494
George B. Bacskay, Jeffrey R. Reimers, and Sture Nordholm
JCE Software
The Basics of Covalent Bonding1503
Jeffrey R. Reimers, George B. Bacskay, and Sture Nordholm
JCE Software
DNA Sequencing Update1503
John F. Beck and David L. Bunbury
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