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January 2006
Vol. 83 No. 1


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Meeting the Challenges of Globalization7
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Small World, Common Ideas9
Diana S. Mason
Reports from Other Journals
Caught on Tape: Catalyst Recovery; Secondary Structure Switch; DNA-Based Chiral Catalysts 10
Angela G. King
Association Reports: CPT
Undergraduate Chemistry Education. Report of an ACS Presidential Symposium17
William F. Polik
Association Report: 2YC3
The MATRIX. Multicultural Alliance for Technology, Research, and Information Exchange19
Raymond E. Turner
Ask the Historian
The Origin of the Liebig Condenser23
William B. Jensen
Association Reports: CHED
Committee Reports, October 200524
Report
ACS News30
Helen Herlocker and Jeff Seeman  
Meeting Report
Meeting Report: Reports from Abroad31
Morton Z. Hoffman
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Barium Sulfate33
Jay A. Young
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Barium Nitrate34
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements35
The Information Page38
Letters
Chemical Thermodynamics in the Real World39
Harold Leonard
Letters
A Response to Chemical Thermodynamics in the Real World39
John F. Wójcik
Letters
On Managing the Culture Shock of Retirement40
Carl E. Moore
Letters
The H-Atom and the Golden Ratio: A Possible Link40
Vladimir M. Petruševski
Book and Media Reviews
Elegant Solutions: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry (Philip Ball)41
Hal Harris
Book and Media Reviews
Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (David Kaiser, Ed.) 41
Jeffrey Kovac
Book and Media Reviews
Advanced Excel for Scientific Data Analysis (Robert de Levie)43
Carl Salter
Advertising in This Issue44
Out of the Editor's Basket45

 Chemistry for Everyone
JCE Classroom Activity
Modeling Dynamic Equilibrium with Coins48A
Martin Bartholow
Moving Chemistry Education into 3D: A Tetrahedral Metaphor for Understanding Chemistry. Union Carbide Award for Chemical Education 49
Peter Mahaffy
Cost-Effective Teacher
A DVD Spectroscope: A Simple, High-Resolution Classroom Spectroscope56
Fumitaka Wakabayashi and Kiyohito Hamada

 In The Classroom
Bridging the Cognitive-Affective Gap: Teaching Chemistry while Advancing Affective Objectives. The Singapore Curricular Experience59
Kok Siang Tan, Ngoh-Khang Goh, and Lian-Sai Chia
JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
Using a CBL Unit, a Temperature Sensor, and a Graphing Calculator To Model the Kinetics of Consecutive First-Order Reactions as Safe In-Class Demonstrations64
Deborah A. Moore-Russo and José E. Cortés-Figueroa
Computational Studies of Chemical Reactions: The HNC–HCN and CH3NC–CH3CN Isomerizations69
Arthur M. Halpern
Molecular Modeling Exercises and Experiments
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Chemical Reactions for Use in Education77
Qian Xie and Robert Tinker
Products of Chemistry
Fluorous Compounds and Their Role in Separation Chemistry84
Maria Angeles Ubeda and Roman Dembinski
JCE Featured Molecules
The Chemistry of Highly Fluorinated Compounds92
William F. Coleman
Theoretical Insights for Practical Handling of Pressurized Fluids93
Alfonso Aranda and María del Prado Rodríguez

 In the Laboratory
Vapor Pressure Measurements in a Closed System97
Mark Iannone
Derivatization of Fullerenes: An Organic Chemistry Laboratory99
Charles T. Cox Jr. and Melanie M. Cooper
Diastereoselectivity in the Reduction of α-Hydroxyketones. An Experiment for the Chemistry Major Organic Laboratory101
David B. Ball
Synthesis, Photophysical Characterization, and Gelation Studies of a Stibene–Cholesterol Derivative. An Advanced Physical Organic Chemistry Laboratory106
H. Christina Geiger, David K. Geiger, and Christine Baldwin
An Automated Statistical Process Control Study of Inline Mixing Using Spectrophotometric Detection110
Michael D. Dickey, Michael D. Stewart, C. Grant Willson, and David A. Dickey
Wetting Experiments with a "Web Cam" in an Undergraduate Student Laboratory 114
Hernán Ritacco

 Research: Science and Education
Axisymmetric Liquid Hanging Drops117
Erich C. Meister and Tatiana Yu. Latychevskaia
Reclaiming the Central Role of Equations of State in Thermodynamics127
Vicente Talanquer
The Analysis of Spontaneous Processes Using Equilibrium Thermodynamics132
J. M. Honig and Dor Ben-Amotz
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
The Ammonia Synthesis Reaction: An Exception to the Le Châtelier Principle and Effects of Nonideality138
Mark J. Uline and David S. Corti
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
A Generalized Deduction of the Ideal-Solution Model145
Teresa J. Leo, Pedro Pérez-del-Notario, and Miguel A. Raso
The Binary Temperature–Composition Phase Diagram150
Philip C. Sanders, James H. Reeves, and Michael Messina
A Vector Representation for Thermodynamic Relationships155
Lionello Pogliani
Chemical Education Research
A Procedural Problem in Laboratory Teaching: Experiment and Explain, or Vice-Versa?159
Pasl A. Jalil

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
EPOCH: An Organic Chemistry Homework Program That Offers Response-Specific Feedback to Students164
Raghu Ram Chamala, Roxana Ciochina, Robert B. Grossman, Raphael A. Finkel, Saravana Kannan, and Prasanth Ramachandran
Using Computer Simulations To Teach Salt Solubility. The Role of Entropy in Solubility Equilibrium170
Victor M. S. Gil and João C. M. Paiva
JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
A New Java Animation in Peer-Reviewed JCE WebWare173
William F. Coleman and Edward W. Fedosky
JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
Computer Simulations of Salt Solubility173
Victor M. S. Gil and João C. M. Paiva
Filling in the Hexagonal Close-Packed Unit Cell175
Robert C. Rittenhouse, Linda M. Soper, and Jeffrey L. Rittenhouse
JCE Software
Journal of Chemical Education on CD-ROM, 2005. Abstract of JCE CD 2005 176
Jon L. Holmes
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