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November 2005
Vol. 82 No. 11


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
It Was a Very Good Year1591
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Gedanken Experiments1593
Diana S. Mason
Reports from Other Journals
Research Advances: Horseradish, Peroxide Mixture May End War of the Noses; Even Low Levels of Benzene Are Hemotoxic; New "Nuclear Battery" Runs 10 Years, 10 Times More Powerful1594
Angela G. King
Reports from Other Journals: Nature
Nature : Small, Smaller, Smallest. A Pocket-size Device, Nano-size Electrical Conduits, and Amyloid Protein Fibril Structure1599
Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon C. Cannon
Report
Einstein Revisited1601
Leonard Fine
Reports from Other Journals: The Science Teacher
The Science Teacher: Fall 20051609
Steve Long
Reports from Other Journals: The Physics Teacher
The Physics Teacher: Black Boxes, Frozen Lakes, and What = mc2?1611
Roy W. Clark
Association Report: 2YC3
Underground Existence of Research in Chemistry in Two-Year College Programs1613
Onofrio Gaglione
Commentary
Introductory Chemistry Needs a Revolution. ACS and IUPAC and AAAS and ICUC Should Lead It1615
Stephen J. Hawkes
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Ammonium Dichromate1617
Jay A. Young
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Ammonium Chloride1618
Jay A. Young
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Ammonium Thiocyanate1619
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements1620
Letters
Online Sources of Organic Data1623
Brian J. Myers
Letters
Properties of the Lanthanide Metals; Correlations and Discontinuities1623
Michael Laing
The Information Page1624
Book and Media Reviews
Nanophysics and Nanotechnology: An Introduction to Modern Concepts in Nanoscience (Edward L. Wolf)1625
Frank L. Somer Jr.
Book and Media Reviews
The Organic Chemistry of Biological Pathways (John E. McMurry and Tadhg P. Begley)1626
Alan M. Rosan
Advertising in This Issue1628
Out of the Editor's Basket1629

 Chemistry for Everyone
JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
The Oxidation of Iron in a Gel Using Consumer Chemicals1633
Stephen W. Wright, Marsha R. Folger, and Ryan P. Quinn
E = mc2 for the Chemist: When Is Mass Conserved?1636
Richard S. Treptow

 In The Classroom
Displacements of Brownian Particles in Terms of Marian von Smoluchowski's Heuristic Model1642
Hermann Klein and Dietrich Woermann
A Simple and Easy-To-Learn Chart of the Main Classes of Inorganic Compounds and Their Acid–Base Reactions1645
Grigoriy Sereda
JCE Classroom Activity
Trusty or Rusty? Oxidation Rate of Nails1648A
Stephen W. Wright
Fully Exploiting the Potential of the Periodic Table through Pattern Recognition1649
Emeric Schultz
Predicting the Atomic Weights of the Trans-Lawrencium Elements: A Novel Application of Dobereiner's Triads1658
Sami A. Ibrahim
Trends in Ionization Energy of Transition-Metal Elements1660
Paul S. Matsumoto

 In the Laboratory
Synthesis and Analysis of Copper Hydroxy Double Salts1662
Laura M. Brigandi, Phyllis A. Leber, and Claude H. Yoder
Cotton Effect in Copper–Proline Complexes in the Visible Region1663
Victor Volkov and Rolf Pfister
Preparation, Analysis, and Characterization of Some Transition Metal Complexes—A Holistic Approach1667
Kristy M. Blyth, Lindsay R. Mullings, David N. Phillips, David Pritchard, and Wilhelm van Bronswijk
Hydrolysis of Pentaamminechlorocobalt(III): A Unified Mechanistic View1671
Gabriel González and Manuel Martínez
The Discovery-Oriented Approach to Organic Chemistry. 6. Selective Reduction in Organic Chemistry: Reduction of Aldehydes in the Presence of Esters Using Sodium Borohydride1674
Ashvin R. Baru and Ram S. Mohan
A GC–MS Analysis of an SN2 Reaction for the Organic Laboratory1676
Malgorzata M. Clennan and Edward L. Clennan
A Template-Controlled Solid-State Reaction for the Organic Chemistry Laboratory 1679
Tomislav Friscic, Tamara D. Hamilton, Giannis S. Papaefstathiou, and Leonard R. MacGillivray
Spectrophotometric Determination of the Dissociation Constant of an Acid–Base Indicator Using a Mathematical Deconvolution Technique1682
Krystyn P. Alter, John L. Molloy, and Emily D. Niemeyer
An Azulene-Based Discovery Experiment: Challenging Students To Watch for the "False Assumption"1686
Charles M. Garner
JCE Featured Molecules
Azulene Chemistry1688
Green Chemistry
An Approach Towards Teaching Green Chemistry Fundamentals1689
Susan D. Van Arnum
The Introduction of High-Throughput Experimentation Methods for Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling Reactions in University Education1693
Richard Hoogenboom, Michael A. R. Meier, and Ulrich S. Schubert
A Safer, Easier, Faster Synthesis for CdSe Quantum Dot Nanocrystals1697
Elizabeth M. Boatman, George C. Lisensky, and Karen J. Nordell
Quantum Dots: An Experiment for Physical or Materials Chemistry1700
L. D. Winkler, J. F. Arceo, W. C. Hughes, B. A. DeGraff, and B. H. Augustine

 Research: Science and Education
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
Determination of the Rotational Barrier in Ethane by Vibrational Spectroscopy and Statistical Thermodynamics1703
Gianfranco Ercolani
First-Order or Second-Order Kinetics? A Monte Carlo Answer1709
Joel Tellinghuisen
Products of Chemistry
Polypyrazolylborates: Scorpionates1715
Swiatoslaw Trofimenko
Relativistic Effects and the Chemistry of the Heaviest Main-Group Elements1721
John S. Thayer

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Teaching with Technology
The Virtual ChemLab Project: A Realistic and Sophisticated Simulation of Organic Synthesis and Organic Qualitative Analysis1728
Brian F. Woodfield, Merritt B. Andrus, Gregory L. Waddoups, Melissa S. Moore, Richard Swan, Rob Allen, Greg Bodily, Tricia Andersen, Jordan Miller, Bryon Simmons, and Richard Stanger
The Use of the Free, Open-Source Program Jmol To Generate an Interactive Web Site To Teach Molecular Symmetry1736
Marion E. Cass and Henry S. Rzepa
JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
Teaching Molecular Symmetry with JCE WebWare1741
William F. Coleman and Edward W. Fedosky
JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
3D Molecular Symmetry Shockwave: A Web Application for Interactive Visualization and Three-Dimensional Perception of Molecular Symmetry1741
Nickolas D. Charistos, Constantinos A. Tsipis, and Michail P. Sigalas
JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
An Animated Interactive Overview of Molecular Symmetry1742
Marion E. Cass, Henry S. Rzepa, David R. Rzepa, and Charlotte K. Williams
JCE Software
JCE Chemical Laboratory Information Profiles (CLIPs) on CD-ROM. Abstract of JCE CLIPs 20051744
Jon L. Holmes
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