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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2007  > March  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 March 2007
Vol. 84 No. 3

 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
New Technologies, New Opportunities375
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Make Your Classroom "The Best"377
Erica K. Jacobsen
Reports from Other Journals: Research Advances
DNA Computing Targets West Nile Virus, Other Deadly Diseases, and Tic-Tac-Toe; Marijuana Component May Offer Hope for Alzheimer's Disease Treatment; New Wound Dressing May Lead to Maggot Therapy—Without the Maggots378
Angela G. King
Association Report: CUR
Alliances to Promote Undergraduate Research384
Kerry Karukstis
Report
Confchem: Ensuring the Future through Education389
Loretta L. Jones
Association Report: 2YC3
Equipping the 2015 Chemical Technology Workforce: Partnering with Key Stakeholders392
Blake J. Aronson and Jodi L. Wesemann
ACS National Meeting
Program for the Division of Chemical Education: Chicago, March 25–29, 2007394
Catherine H. Middlecamp, George M. Bodner, and Wayne E. Jones, Jr.
ACS National Meeting
High School Program: Chicago396
ACS National Meeting
Undergraduate Program: Chicago402
Adam M. Boyd
ACS National Meeting
CHED Events: Chicago404
ACS National Meeting
Presidential Events: Chicago405
Frank Walworth
ACS National Meeting
About Chicago406
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Magnesium411
Jay A. Young
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Magnesium Chloride412
Jay A. Young
The Information Page414
News & Announcements415
Book and Media Reviews
The Life and Scientific Legacy of George Porter (David Philips and James Barber, Eds.)418
Richard Pagni
Book and Media Reviews
Introduction to HPLC (John Dolan and Dennis Saunders)419
David Harvey
Advertising in This Issue420
Out of the Editor's Basket421

 Chemistry for Everyone
Where Did the Water Go? Boyle's Law and Pressurized Diaphragm Water Tanks425
James Brimhall and Sundar Naga

 In The Classroom
Secondary School Chemistry
Applications of Reaction Rate430
Kevin Cunningham
Introducing Michaelis–Menten Kinetics through Simulation434
Christopher J. Halkides and Russell Herman
Applications and Analogies
Known-to-Unknown Approach To Teach about Coulomb's Law438
P. K. Thamburaj
The Roles of Acids and Bases in Enzyme Catalysis440
Hilton M. Weiss
A "Classic Papers" Approach to Teaching Undergraduate Organometallic Chemistry443
Andrew P. Duncan and Adam R. Johnson
Hurricanes as Heat Engines: Two Undergraduate Problems447
Pekka Pyykkö
JCE Classroom Activity
Cool! Rates of Heating and Cooling448A
Martin Bartholow

 In the Laboratory
Secondary School Chemistry
Discovering the Thermodynamics of Simultaneous Equilibria. An Entropy Analysis Activity Involving Consecutive Equilibria449
Thomas H. Bindel
Introduction of Differential Scanning Calorimetry in a General Chemistry Laboratory Course: Determination of Thermal Properties of Organic Hydrocarbons453
Ronald D’Amelia, Thomas Franks, and William F. Nirode
Flame Emission Spectrometry in General Chemistry Labs: Solubility Product (Ksp) of Potassium Hydrogen Phthalate456
Frazier W. Nyasulu, William Cusworth III, David Lindquist, and John Mackin
High-Resolution Vibration–Rotation Spectroscopy of CO2: Understanding the Boltzmann Distribution459
Karen J. Castle
Cp/Cv Ratios Measured by the Sound Velocity Method Using Calculator-Based Laboratory Technology462
Mario Branca and Isabella Soletta
An Inquiry-Based Chemistry Laboratory Promoting Student Discovery of Gas Laws465
A. M. R. P. Bopegedera
Using Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures To Determine the Vapor Pressure of a Volatile Liquid469
Fred R. Hilgeman, Gary Bertrand, and Brent Wilson
Nuclear Overhauser Effect Spectroscopy. An Advanced Undergraduate Experiment471
Michael T. Huggins and Freida Billimoria
Green Chemistry
The Aldol Addition and Condensation: The Effect of Conditions on Reaction Pathway475
R. David Crouch, Amie Richardson, Jessica L. Howard, Rebecca L. Harker, and Kathryn H. Barker
Improved Synthesis of Geodken's Macrocycle through the Synthesis of the Dichloride Salt477
J. H. Niewahner, Keith A. Walters, and Ashley Wagner
An Inexpensive Kinetic Study: The Reaction of FD&C Red #3 (Erythrosin B) with Hypochlorite480
Maher M. Henary and Arlene A. Russell
Using a Premade Grignard Reagent To Synthesize Tertiary Alcohols in a Convenient Investigative Organic Laboratory Experiment483
Michael A. G. Berg and Roy D. Pointer
Sterically Hindered Square-Planar Nickel(II) Organometallic Complexes: Preparation, Characterization, and Substitution Behavior485
Manuel Martínez, Guillermo Muller, Mercè Rocamora, and Carlos Rodríguez
Experiments in Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Phosphine Substitution in (p-Cymene)RuCl2(PR3)489
Oleg V. Ozerov, Claudia M. Fafard, and Norris W. Hoffman
JCE Featured Molecules
Molecular Models of Ruthenium(II) Organometallic Complexes492
William F. Coleman

 Research: Science and Education
Consistent Application of the Boltzmann Distribution to Residual Entropy in Crystals493
Evguenii I. Kozliak
Pressure–Volume Integral Expressions for Work in Irreversible Processes499
Eric A. Gislason and Norman C. Craig
Particle Model for Work, Heat, and the Energy of a Thermodynamic System504
Howard DeVoe
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
The Determination of Heat Capacity Ratios in a Simple Open System513
Glen L. Holden
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
Effect of a Perturbation on the Chemical Equilibrium: Comparison with Le Châtelier's Principle516
Emilio Martínez Torres
Predominance Diagrams, a Useful Tool for the Correlation of the Precipitation–Solubility Equilibrium with Other Ionic Equilibria520
Constantino Fernández Pereira, Manuel Alcalde, Rosario Villegas, and José Vale
Hydrophilic Inorganic Macro-Ions in Solution: Unprecedented Self-Assembly Emerging from Historical "Blue Waters"526
Tianbo Liu, Ekkehard Diemann, and Achim Müller
Dealing with Outliers: Robust, Resistant Regression533
Leslie Glasser
Chemical Education Research
Evaluating Peer-Led Team Learning: A Study of Long-Term Effects on Former Workshop Peer Leaders535
Leo Gafney and Pratibha Varma-Nelson
Constructing a Graphic Organizer in the Classroom: Introductory Students' Perception of Achievement Using a Decision Map To Solve Aqueous Acid–Base Equilibria Problems540
Stephen DeMeo

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Teaching with Technology
Effects on Student Achievement in General Chemistry Following Participation in an Online Preparatory Course. ChemPrep, a Voluntary, Self-Paced, Online Introduction to Chemistry547
Beatrice Botch, Roberta Day, William Vining, Barbara Stewart, Kenneth Rath, Alan Peterfreund, and David Hart
Chemical Information Instructor
Examining the Effects of Introducing Online Access to ACS Journals at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions554
R. G. Landolt
Molecular Structures from 1H NMR Spectra: Education Aided by Internet Programs556
Barbara Debska and Barbara Guzowska-Swider
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 1/30/2007
2/14/2007
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