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Cover
January 1997
Vol. 74 No. 1


 Chemical Education Today
In This Issue1
Editorial
Everyone Counts! Everyone Should Participate!5
John W. Moore
News from Journal House
News6
Especially for High School Teachers
January Articles of Interest7
J. Emory Howell
Letters
How Do We Keep the Journal So Affordable? 8
Kenneth Emerson
Letters
Computation of Vapor Pressure8
Ben Ruekberg
Announcements
Announcements10
Anniversaries
Anniversaries: 199712
Paul Schatz
Reports from Other Journals
Nature13
Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon Cannon
Association Reports
Who Will Prepare Tomorrow's Science Teachers? How?14
Jerry Bell
Reports from Other Journals
A View of Science Education Research Literature16
William R. Robinson
Commentary
The Work's Not Over- Roll Up Your Sleeves and Make a Difference!17
Mickey Sarquis
Commentary
Hubert N. Alyea, 1903-199620
Bassam Z. Shakhashiri
Letters
Redox Rap22
Laura Kolonie
Letters
Free Energy22
S. R. Logan
Letters
Treptow Replies:22
Richard S. Treptow
Journal Feature Columns: Mission Statements24
Report
Report: NSF Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Grants in Chemistry29

 High-Performance Liquid Chromatography
Waters Symposium
Modern Practice of Liquid Chromatography: Before and after 197137
Lloyd R. Snyder
Waters Symposium
HPLC: EARLY AND RECENT PERSPECTIVES45
Barry L. Karger
Laboratory Applications
HPLC for Undergraduate Introductory Laboratories49
Scott A. Van Arman and Marcus W. Thomsen

 Chemistry Everyday For Everyone
Applications and Analogies
The Photochemistry of Sunscreens51
Doris R. Kimbrough
Products of Chemistry
Photoionic Supermolecules: Mobilizing the Charge and Light Brigades53
R.A. Prasanna de Silva, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, and Colin P. McCoy
Chemistry for Kids
Chemistry for Children: A Program in Precollege Chemistry for Elementary and Middle School Teachers59
Scott A. Davis and Arnold George
Passion-Research: A Joint Venture to Interest High School Students in Chemistry61
Francois J. Carriere and Madeleine Abouaf

 In The Classroom
Exponential Notation64
Gavin D Peckham
A Unifying Approach to Absorption Spectroscopy at the Undergraduate Level65
Roger S. Macomber
Applications and Analogies
An Analogy To Assist Understanding of Splitting Patterns in NMR Spectra68
Dianne A. Thoben and Thomas H. Lowry
Understanding Oxidation - Reduction in Organic Chemistry69
Jean-Pierre Anselme
NSF Highlights
Electrochemical Measurements in the Undergraduate Curriculum72
John F. Wheeler, Sandra K. Wheeler, and Laura L. Wright
The University of Michigan Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum 1. Philosophy, Curriculum, and the Nature of Change74
Seyhan N. Ege, Brian P. Coppola, Richard G. Lawton
The University of Michigan Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum 2. Instructional Strategies and Assessment84
Brian P. Coppola, Seyhan N. Ege, Richard G. Lawton

 In the Laboratory
The Synthesis of a Superabsorbent Polymer95
Charles M. Garner, Matthew Nething, and Phuc Nguyen
The Gelation of Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) with Na2B4O7 · 10H2O: Killing Slime97
K. W. McLaughlin, N. K. Wyffels, A. B. Jentz, and M. V. Keenan
The Spectrophotometric Analysis and Modeling of Sunscreens99
Christina Walters, Allen Keeney, Carl T. Wigal, Cynthia R. Johnston, and Richard D. Cornelius
The Acid Catalyzed Dehydration of an Isomeric 2-Methylcyclohexanol Mixture: A Kinetic and Regiochemical Study of the Evelyn Effect102
John J. Cawley and Patrick E. Linder
Regiospecific Ester Hydrolysis by Orange Peel Esterase - An Undergraduate Experiment.105
Timothy D.H. Bugg, Andrew M. Lewin and Eric R. Catlin
Reduction of Carboxylic Acids with Sodium Borohydride and an Electrophile107
Jan William Simek, Thad Tuck, and Kelly Courter Bush
Reactions of Bromine with Diphenylethylenes: an Introduction to Electrophilic Substitution109
Ronald M. Jarret, Jamie New, and Kalliopi Karaliolios
Preparation and Solution Polymerization of Diacetylenes111
Bruce A. Hathaway and Angela M. Scates
A -78°C Sequential Michael Addition for the Organic Lab112
Michael W. Tanis
The Wittig Reaction: Generation, Observation and Reactivity of a Phosphorous Ylide Intermediate. An Experiment for the Advanced Organic Chemistry Laboratory Course114
Gary W. Breton
X-ray Diffraction Investigation of Alloys115
R. A. Butera and D. H. Waldeck

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Virtual Titrator: A Student-Oriented Instrument120
David Ritter and Michael Johnson
Electron Affinities of the Alkaline Earth Metals and the Sign Convention for Electron Affinity123
John C. Wheeler
JCE Software
Journal of Chemical Education on CD-ROM, September - December 1996128
X-Ray Diffraction and the Bragg Equation129
Christopher G. Pope

 Research: Science and Education
Aromaticity Today: Energetic and Structural Criteria132
Mikhail Glukhovtsev
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