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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2007  > September  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 September 2007
Vol. 84 No. 9

 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Learning from Others1399
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
A New School Year Begins1401
Laura E. Slocum
Reports from Other Journals
Research Advances: New Antifreeze Protein Gives Cold Shoulder to Its Natural Counterpart; Lab-Made "Microtornadoes" May Reveal Destructive Secrets of Real-Life Twisters1402
Angela G. King
Classroom Activity Connections
Marbling Paper Postcards1407
Patti Duncan
Conant Award Interview
An Interview with Eleanor Siegrist, 2007 Award Winner1408
JCE Editorial Staff
Report
ConfChem: International Conference on First-Year College Chemistry1413
Robert E. Belford, Paul B. Kelter, and James F. Kirby
Commentary
Concerning Lewis Acid–Base Theory for Proton Transfer1415
Lawrence J. Sacks
Ask the Historian
The Origin of the Oxidation-State Concept1418
William B. Jensen
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Lactic Acid1420
Jay A. Young
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Urea1421
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements1422
The Information Page1426
Letters
Exception to the Le Châtelier Principle1427
Thomas R. Herrinton
Letters
Exception to the Le Châtelier Principle1427
David S. Corti and Mark J. Uline
Letters
Equilibrium: A Teaching/Learning Activity1428
Douglas A. Vander Griend
Letters
Equilibrium: A Teaching/Learning Activity1429
Audrey Wilson
Letters
Quantitative Aspects of Teaching1429
Sidney Toby
Letters
Liquid Crystals Activity Revisited1429
Vladimir M. Petruševski
Letters
Determination of the Number of Operations for a Point Group from Only Its Name1430
Owen J. Curnow
Book & Media Reviews
New Ideas in Chemistry from Fresh Energy for the Periodic Law (Henry A. Bent)1431
A. Truman Schwartz
Book & Media Reviews
Biological Inorganic Chemistry (Ivano Bertini, Harry B. Gray, Edward I. Stiefel, and Joan S. Valentine, eds.)1432
Daniel Rabinovich
Advertising in This Issue1434
Out of the Editor's Basket1435

 Chemistry for Everyone
Chemie im Kontext: Situating Learning in Relevant Contexts while Systematically Developing Basic Chemical Concepts1439
Peter M. Nentwig, Reinhard Demuth, Ilka Parchmann, Cornelia Gräsel, and Bernd Ralle

 In the Classroom
Reworking Exams To Teach Chemistry Content and Reinforce Student Learning1445
John M. Risley
Predicted versus Actual Performance in Undergraduate Organic Chemistry and Implications for Student Advising1448
David P. Pursell

 In the Laboratory
A One-Hour Practical Lab Exam for Organic Chemistry1453
Edward G. Neeland
The Penny Experiment Revisited: An Illustration of Significant Figures, Accuracy, Precision, and Data Analysis1456
Joseph Bularzik
Which Method Is Most Precise; Which Is Most Accurate? An Undergraduate Experiment1459
A. D. Jordan
Redox Titration of Ferricyanide to Ferrocyanide with Ascorbic Acid: Illustrating the Nernst Equation and Beer–Lambert Law1461
Tina H. Huang, Gail Salter, Sarah L. Kahn, and Yvonne M. Gindt
Electrochemistry of (Dihapto-Buckminster-Fullerene) Pentacarbonyl Tungsten(0). An Experiment for the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Part III 1464
Elvin Igartúa-Nieves, Yessenia Ocasio-Delgado, José Rivera-Pagán, and José E. Cortés-Figueroa
Spectroelectrochemical Sensing of Aqueous Iron. An Experiment for Analytical Chemistry1467
Tanya Shtoyko, O. Dean Stuart, and H. Neil Gray
Detection of Catechol by Potentiometric-Flow Injection Analysis in the Presence of Interferents1471
Suzanne K. Lunsford, Justyna Widera, and Hong Zhang
A Guided-Inquiry Approach to the Sodium Borohydride Reduction and Grignard Reaction of Carbonyl Compounds1474
Robert E. Rosenberg
A Knoevenagel Initiated Annulation Reaction Using Room Temperature or Microwave Conditions1477
A. Gilbert Cook
Synthesis of Anomeric Methyl Fructofuranosides and Their Separation on an Ion-exchange Resin1480
Erkki Nurminen, Päivi Poijärvi, Katja Koskua, and Jari Hovinen
Determining the Quantum Efficiency for Activation of an Organometallic Photoinitiator for Cationic Polymerization. An Experiment for the Physical or Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory1483
David M. Hayes, Maura Mahar, R. Chris Schnabel, Paras Shah, Alistair J. Lees, and Vladimir Jakubek
Coupling Molecular Modeling to the Traditional "IR-ID" Exercise in the Introductory Organic Chemistry Laboratory1486
Heather Stokes-Huby and Dale E. Vitale
Teaching Chromatography Using Virtual Laboratory Exercises1488
David C. Stone
JCE Featured Molecules
Molecular Models of Rosmarinic Acid and DPPH1496
William F. Coleman
Revisiting the Separation of Ferrocene and Acetylferrocene by Adsorption Chromatography: Adding a Third Component1497
Rebecca Hwa and Haim Weizman
Determination of the Rotational Barrier for Kinetically Stable Conformational Isomers via NMR and 2D TLC. An Introductory Organic Chemistry Experiment1499
Gregory T. Rushton, William G. Burns, Judi M. Lavin, Yong S. Chong, Perry Pellechia, and Ken D. Shimizu
Quantitative HPLC Analysis of Rosmarinic Acid in Extracts of Melissa officinalis and Spectrophotometric Measurement of Their Antioxidant Activities1502
Vera Canelas and Cristina Teixeira da Costa
Quantitative Determination of Photosynthetic Pigments in Green Beans Using Thin-Layer Chromatography and a Flatbed Scanner as Densitometer1505
Juan Valverde, Hervé This, and Marc Vignolle
Determination of the Subunit Molecular Mass and Composition of Alcohol Dehydrogenase by SDS-PAGE1508
Barbara T. Nash
An Improved Method for Studying the Enzyme-Catalyzed Oxidation of Glucose Using Luminescent Probes1511
William D. Bare, Chi V. Pham, Matthew Cuber, and J. N. Demas

 Research: Science and Education
Appreciating Formal Similarities in the Kinetics of Homogeneous, Heterogeneous, and Enzyme Catalysis1515
Michael T. Ashby
Concepts in Biochemistry
Lactate Dehydrogenase Catalysis: Roles of Keto, Hydrated, and Enol Pyruvate1520
J. E. Meany
Chemical Education Research
CHEMX: An Instrument To Assess Students' Cognitive Expectations for Learning Chemistry1524
Nathaniel Grove and Stacey Lowery Bretz
Pre-Service Teacher as Researcher: The Value of Inquiry in Learning Science1530
Janice M. Hohloch, Nathaniel Grove, and Stacey Lowery Bretz
The Aromaticity of Pericyclic Reaction Transition States1535
Henry S. Rzepa
Products of Chemistry
The A1c Blood Test: An Illustration of Principles from General and Organic Chemistry1541
Robert C. Kerber

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Structures for the ABO(H) Blood Group: Which Textbook Is Correct?1546
John M. Risley
Configurational Entropy Revisited1548
Frank L. Lambert
JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
An Interactive Computer Program To Help Students Learn Molecular Symmetry Elements and Operations1551
David E. Meyer and Andrew L. Sargent
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 7/23/2007
8/3/2007
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