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November 1997
Vol. 74 No. 11


 Chemical Education Today
In This Issue1249
Editorial
Balancing the Forest and the Trees1253
John W. Moore
News from Journal House
News1254
Especially for High School Teachers
Especially for High School Teachers1255
J. Emory Howell
Letters
Letter to the Editor about "Redox Challenges" by Roland Stout (J. Chem. Educ. 1995, 72, 1125)1256
Rodger S. Nelson
Letters
Letter to the Editor about Letter to the Editor "Redox Challenges" from David M. Hart and Response from Roland Stout (J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, A226-7)1256
Andrzej Sobkowiak
Letters
Letter to the Editor about "On Balancing 'Redox Challenges'" by Oliver G. Ludwig (J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, 507)1256
Zoltan Toth
Letters
Letter to the Editor about "On Balancing 'Redox Challenges'" by Oliver G. Ludwig (J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, 507)1256
A. A. Woolf
Letters
Response to Letter to the Editor about "On Balancing 'Redox Challenges'" by Oliver G. Ludwig (J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, 507) 1256
Oliver G. Ludwig
Letters
Letter to the Editor about "How Do I Balance Thee?... Let Me Count the Ways!" by Lawrence A. Ferguson (J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, 1129)1256
Wade A. Freeman, Ngoh-Khang Goh, L. S. Chia, David M. Hart, Eric A. Lucas, David J. Perry, R. Subramaniam, Marten J. ten Hoor, Sidney Toby, and Richard S. Treptow
Corrections
Correction to Letter (J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, A226) 1256
David M. Hart
Corrections
Correction to Table 2 of "The pH of Sweat of Horses" (J. Chem. Educ. 1997, 74, 1135)1256
John Tierney
Announcements
Announcements1258
Association Reports
CPT Special Report: Survey of Ph. D. Programs in Chemistry1260
Jerry R. Mohrig
Association Reports
Association Report: 2YC3 A Federal Perspective on Community Colleges1264
Henry M. Smith
Report
A View of the Science Education Research Literature1265
William R. Robinson
Conference Report
Report: ACS Division of Chemical Education
Highlights of the Las Vegas ACS Meeting
1266
Tom Wildeman
Report
Symposium on Systemic Reform in Chemistry1268
Arlene Russell
ACS National Historic Chemical Landmark: Charles Martin Hall's Discovery of the Electrochemical Process for Aluminum1269
Norman C. Craig
Profiles, Pathways, and Dreams: Autobiographies of Eminent Chemists. Vol. 19, A Lifetime of Synergy with Theory and Experiment by Andrew Streitwieser1277
George B. Kauffman and Laurie M. Kauffman
Introduction to General, Organic and Biological Chemistry by Michael S. Matta, Antony C. Wilbraham, and Dennis D. Staley1277
Lois B. Krause
Fundamentals of General, Organic and Biological Chemistry, 2nd ed. by John McMurry and Mary E. Castellion1279
Lois B. Krause
Spreadsheet Applications in Chemistry Using Microsoft Excel by Dermot Diamond and Venita C. A. Hanratty1279
Jeffery A. Greathouse

 Chemistry Everyday For Everyone
Chemistry in the Public Domain: A Plethora of Misinformation - or, Don't Believe Everything You Read in the Newspapers!1285
Sidney Toby

 Research: Science and Education
Topics in Chemical Instrumentation
Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry. Instrumentation and Applications1288
David C. Muddiman, Ray Bakhtiar, Steven A. Hofstadler, and Richard D. Smith
Pi-Electron Delocatlization in Organic Molecules with C-N Bonds1293
Vernon G. S. Box and Hing Wan Yu
Protecting Groups in Carbohydrate Chemistry1297
Sigthór Pétursson
Does a Photochemical Reaction Have a Reaction Order?1303
S. R. Logan

 In the Laboratory
A Mini-Qualitative Carbohydrate Analysis Session1304
Johannes S. Malherbe and Cornelius J. Meyer
Concepts in Biochemistry
An Introduction to Research in Protein Folding for Undergraduates1306
Colleen M. Jones
Calculationg Microspecies Concentration of Zwitterion Amphoteric Compounds: Ciprofloxacin as Example1311
Jordi Hernàndez-Borrell and M. Teresa Montero
An Easy and Cheap Flash Spectroscopy Experiment1314
Mauro Maestri*, Roberto Ballardini, Fernando Jorge Silva Pina, and Maria João Melo
Visible Spectra Conjugated Dyes: Integrating Quantum Chemical Concepts with Experimental Data1317
George M. Shalhoub
Measurement of Evaporation Rates of Organic Liquids by Optical Interference1320
Scott A. Riley, Nathan R. Franklin, Bobbie Oudinarath, Sally Wong, David Congalton, and A. M. Nishimura*
Non-Aqueous Interfacial Polycondensation: A Novel Technique for the Encapsulation of Water-Soluble Solids1322
Bernd J. Hessbrugge and Atul M. Vaidya
On the Disproportionations of Cyclohexene and Related Compounds1323
Alex Bunjes, Ingo Eilks, Manfred Pahlke, and Bernd Ralle*
An Easy Way To Make Chlorine Water1326
L. H. Holmes Jr.
Simple Preparation of Palladium(II) Complexes and Determination of Their Structures by Infrared Spectrosopy1327
José María Casas and Antonio Martín
JCE Classroom Activity
How Big Is the Balloon? Stoichiometry Using Baking Soda and Vinegar1328A
Rigorous Potentiometric Determination of Metal Complexes Stability Constants: An Undergraduate Laboratory Practice1329
Graciela M. Escandar and Luis Federico Sala*
The Microscale Laboratory
The Preparation of T1[BF4]1332
Francisco J. Arnáiz
The Microscale Laboratory
A Microscale Laboratory Heating System1333
Dwight Kinzer
The Microscale Laboratory
A Convinient Procedure for Microscale Bezoylations1335
Sangeeta Pandita and Samta Goyla
Epoxidation of Geraniol: An Advanced Organic Experiment that Illustrates Asymmetric Synthesis1336
Lynn M. Bradley, Joseph W. Springer, Gregory M. Delate, and Andrew Goodman
A Note on Covariance in Propagation of Uncertainty1339
Edwin F. Meyer
Formation and Dimerization of NO2 A General Chemistry Experiment1340
April D. Hennis, C. Scott Highberger, and Serge Schreiner*
A Fast Inexpensive Procedure for Making 35mm Slides1342
Frederick A. Kundell

 In The Classroom
View from My Classroom
On Laboratory Work1343
Dave Olney
Chemistry for Kids
Science on Wheels: A Coherent Link Between Educational Perspectives1346
Juan López-Garriga*, Yldefonso Muñoz-Sola, Yolanda Echevarría, and William Nazario
Molecular Dynamics and the Water Molecule: An Introduction to Molecular Dynamics for Physical Chemistry Students1350
Enrique Saiz and Maria Pilar Tarazona
Electron-Counting Rules for Transition Metal-Nitric Oxide Complexes1354
Anthony W. Addison
Tested Demonstrations
The Disappearing Liquid1357
H. D. Gesser and Ian Ward
Tested Demonstrations
The Shrinking Dollar Bill1357
Christine K. F. Hermann
Applications and Analogies
The Membrane Analogy for Surface Tension in Liquids1358
Francisco J. Arnaíz
On Balancing Chemical Equations: Past and Present1359
William C. Herndon
Balancing Chemical Equations by Inspection1363
Zoltán Tóth
A New and General Method for Balancing Chemical Equations by Inspections1365
Chunshi Guo
Redox Balancing without Puzzling1367
Marten J. ten Hoor
A Challenging Balance1368
P Glaister

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Using Mathematica and Maple To Obtain Chemical Equations1369
William R. Smith and Ronald W. Missen
Using Dynamic Simulation Software in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory1372
Robert W. Ricci and Jane M. Van Doren
What Is a "Heavy Metal"?1374
Stephen J. Hawkes
JCE Software
Journal of Chemical Education on CD-ROM, 1997 (Abstract of JCE: CD 1997)1375
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