Presents an undergraduate analytical chemistry experiment that promotes an interpretation of the molecular aspects of solute partitioning, enhancing student understanding of separation science and liquid chromatography. (CS)

Reports procedures for a college experiment in radioisotope chemistry that involves ion-exchange of 51-Cr. (CS)

Describes an advanced inorganic experiment employing the Faraday magnetic susceptibility system. (CS)

Describes refinements and modifications in the construction of an apparatus to study the kinetics of fast reactions. (CS)

Describes an undergraduate laboratory experiment that demonstrates the value of shift reagent use in producing a first-order spectrum of trans-retinol. (CS)

Provides explanations for the variations in appearance of spectra taken at different pressures and cell lengths. (CS)

Describes a method, using simple algebraic notation, for calculating the nature of the salient features of a sugar pyranoid ring, the steric disposition of substituents about the reference, and the anomeric carbon atoms contained within the ring. (CS)

Provides an alternative derivation of the Boltzmann distribution based on the minimization of the Helmholtz free energy. (CS)

Provides information concerning the Boltzmann distribution mentioning partition functions, spectroscopy, basic mathematics, and its relation to temperature distribution. (CS)

Presents and discusses a procedure for estimating the dissociation energies of diatomic molecules by taking into account experimentally observable parameters. (CS)

Provides sample output and describes a program for programmable calculators that determines the molecular parameters of any type of diatomic molecule. (CS)

Provides background material which relates to the concept of activation energy, fundamental in the study of chemical kinetics. Compares the related concepts of the Arrhenius activation energy, the activation energy at absolute zero, the enthalpy of activation, and the threshold energy. (CS)

Provides background information designed to aid a physical chemistry student in using the virial equation of state in deriving expressions for other thermodynamic properties, such as writing the Joule and Joule-Thomson coefficients in terms of virial expansions. (CS)

Discusses a common error found in organic chemistry textbooks regarding the phenomenon of "conjugate reduction." Provides a table of experimental data involving the reduction of alpha-, beta-unsaturated compounds. An accompanying discussion explains reasons for the lack of correspondence between textbook information and the experimental data. (CS)

Describes a chemistry "pre-course" for students entering Rhode Island Junior College. The course is designed to introduce many basic scientific concepts deemed necessary before entering the first college chemistry course. (CS)