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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2007  > January  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 January 2007
Vol. 84 No. 1

 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
The Art and Science of Science and Art7
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Meet the New Kid on the Block8
Laura Slocum
Especially for High School Teachers
Looking Back, Looking Forward9
Erica K. Jacobsen
Reports from Other Journals
Research Advances: DRPs: Let the Blood Flow; Smart Cellulose May Mean Paper Airplanes That Fly Like Butterflies; Converting Biomass Directly into Electricity10
Angela G. King
Report
Exocharmic Reactions Up Close16
R. W. Ramette
Association Report: ACS Division of Chemical Education
Committee Reports, October 200620
Meeting Report
Reports from Abroad29
Morton Z. Hoffman
Commentary
Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative...?31
Catherine Hurt Middlecamp
The Information Page32
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Mercury(II) bromide33
Jay A. Young
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Mercury(II) acetate34
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements35
Letters
General Acid and General Base Catalysis38
Addison Ault
Letters
The Rate of Proton Transfer39
Eugene E. Kwan
Letters
An Easy Way to Personalize Your Iron or Stainless Steel Items40
Ejaz ur Rehman
Book & Media Reviews
Kitchen Chemistry by Ted Lister, with Heston Blumenthal41
Chrystal D. Bruce
Book & Media Reviews
The Chemical Element: A Historical Perspective (Greenwood Guides to Great Ideas in Science) by Andrew Ede42
Eric R. Scerri
Book & Media Reviews
Valency and Bonding: A Natural Bond Orbital Donor–Acceptor Perspective by Frank Weinhold and Clark Landis43
Andrew J. Pounds
Advertising in This Issue44
Out of the Editor's Basket45

 Waters Symposium: Raman Spectroscopy
Waters Symposium
The 14th Annual James L. Waters Symposium at Pittcon: Raman Spectroscopy49
Charles W. Gardner
Waters Symposium
Evolution of Instrumentation for Detection of the Raman Effect as Driven by Available Technologies and by Developing Applications50
Fran Adar, Michel Delhaye, and Edouard DaSilva
Waters Symposium
The Impact of Volume Phase Holographic Filters and Gratings on the Development of Raman Instrumentation61
Harry Owen
Waters Symposium
The Impact of Array Detectors on Raman Spectroscopy67
Stephen C. Denson, Carolyn J. S. Pommier, and M. B. Denton
Waters Symposium
FT–Raman Spectroscopy: A Catalyst for the Raman Explosion?75
Bruce Chase

 Chemistry for Everyone
A Developmental History of Polymer Mass Spectrometry81
Matthew J. Vergne, Robert P. Lattimer, and David M. Hercules

 In The Classroom
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
Plasmons: Why Should We Care?91
D. J. Campbell and Younan Xia
JCE Classroom Activity
Cooking Up Colors from Plants, Fabric, and Metal96A
Jennifer E. Mihalick and Kathleen M. Donnelly
Teaching Structure–Property Relationships: Investigating Molecular Structure and Boiling Point97
Peter M. Murphy
π Backbonding in Carbonyl Complexes and Carbon–Oxygen Stretching Frequencies: A Molecular Modeling Exercise102
Craig D. Montgomery
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
Reformulation of the Michaelis–Menten Equation: How Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions Depend on Gibbs Energy106
Brian J. Bozlee

 In the Laboratory
Manual Solid–Phase Peptide Synthesis of Metallocene–Peptide Bioconjugates108
Srecko I. Kirin, Fozia Noor, Nils Metzler-Nolte, and Water Mier
Survey of Biochemical Separation Techniques112
Melanie R. Nilsson
Photochemical Synthesis and Ligand Exchange Reactions of Ru(CO)4(η²-alkene) Compounds115
Jason Cooke, David E. Berry, and Kelli L. Fawkes
Green Chemistry
Greening Wittig Reactions: Solvent-Free Synthesis of Ethyl trans-Cinnamate and trans-3-(9-Anthryl)-2-Propenoic Acid Ethyl Ester119
Kim Chi Nguyen and Haim Weizman
JCE Featured Molecules
Molecular Model of trans-3-(9-Anthryl)-2-Propenoic Acid Ethyl Ester 121
William F. Coleman
Titration of a Solid Acid Monitored By X-Ray Diffraction122
Keenan E. Dungey and Paul Epstein
Chemical Speciation Analysis of Sports Drinks by Acid–Base Titrimetry and Ion Chromatography: A Challenging Beverage Formulation Project124
Howard Drossman
Undergraduate Introductory Quantitative Chemistry Laboratory Course: Interdisciplinary Group Projects in Phytoremediation128
Debra L. Van Engelen, Steven W. Suljak, J. Patrick Hall, and Bert E. Holmes
Use of Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy in Inorganic Syntheses for an Upper-Level Exploratory Lab132
Caryn S. Seney, Joshua C. Yelverton, Sharon Eanes, Vikas Patel, Julia Riggs, Sarah Wright, and Robin M. Bright

 Research: Science and Education
How to Compute Labile Metal–Ligand Equilibria136
Robert de Levie
pH-Static Titration: A Quasistatic Approach142
Tadeusz Michalowski, Marcin Toporek, and Maciej Rymanowski
Group Theory and Crystal Field Theory: A Simple and Rigorous Derivation of the Spectroscopic Terms Generated by the t2g² Electronic Configuration in a Strong Octahedral Field151
Simone Morpurgo
Analyzing and Interpreting NMR Spin–Spin Coupling Constants Using Molecular Orbital Calculations156
Boris Le Guennic and Jochen Autschbach
Chemical Education Research
Two Kinds of Conceptual Problems in Chemistry Teaching172
Zuzana Haláková and Miroslav Prokša
Chemical Education Research
Effectiveness of a MORE Laboratory Module in Prompting Students To Revise Their Molecular-Level Ideas about Solutions175
Lydia T. Tien, Melonie A. Teichert, and Dawn Rickey
Evaluation Tools To Guide Students’ Peer-Assessment and Self-Assessment in Group Activities for the Lab and Classroom182
Thomas J. Wenzel
The Philosophy of Chemistry as a New Resource for Chemistry Education187
Olimpia Lombardi and Martín G. Labarca
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 10/30/2006
3/19/2007
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