Well-written Journal Articles in Chem?

[mishima]

Hi, I was interested in collecting around 3 very nice chemistry journal articles to use as example/inspiration for students writing lab reports. I thought I would ask here before wandering my libraries' archives for a few hours.

 

[Bystander]

You want 'em for grade school, middle school, high school, college level? Major or non-major? Strictly chemistry? Physics or biology acceptable?

 

[mishima]

They are advanced high school students, strictly chemistry. I was hoping to be able to prove to them that there is a greater artistic range than they assume in science writing.

 

[Ygggdrasil]

I wouldn't call this good science writing, but if you're looking for something artistic & creative here's an article from the Journal of Organic Chemistry written in iambic pentameter: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021...ckLinkPage=184&selectedTab=citation&volume=36

 

[Bystander]

"Well written ..." That plus keeping things to a reasonable length and on topics intelligible to HS students plus recent enough that you can access them without a time machine makes it a little tough. Best I could come up with are from the 70s, not terribly obnoxious use of passive voice, and actually readable.

J. Phys. Chem., vol. 74, no. 24,1970, pp. 4299-4300.
J. Phys. Chem., vol. 74, no. 23, 1970, pp. 4157-9.
J. Chem. Phys., vol. 21, no. 1. 1953, pp. 80-2.

And more recently, and more accessible
J. Chem. Ed., vol. 71, no. 6, June 1994, pp. 531-3.

Best reading is just browsing JACS from the 30s --- lotsa luck finding a library where it's still on the shelves.