Maitland Jones Jr.
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| Maitland Jones Jr. | |
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| Born | November 23, 1937 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Yale University (BS, MS, PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Chemistry |
| Sub discipline | Organic chemistry Experimental chemistry |
| Institutions | Yale University Princeton University New York University |
Maitland Jones Jr. (born November 23, 1937) is an American experimental chemist. Jones started working at Princeton University in 1964, where he stayed until 2007, where he retired from Princeton[1] and then taught at New York University.
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Education
Jones earned a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and PhD from Yale University.
Career
Jones' field of expertise is reactive intermediates, with particular emphasis on carbenes. He has published extensively in the field of quantum organic chemistry, particularly focusing on the mechanism of quantum molecular reactions. His interest areas include carbenes, carboranes, and heterocycles. Over the course of almost forty years, he and his research group have published 225 papers, averaging some five papers per year or one paper per active group member per year.[citation needed] Jones is also the author of Organic Chemistry texts. He is credited with the naming of bullvalene, which is named after William "Bull" Doering, whom Jones was studying under during his time as a graduate student at Yale University.
After retiring from Princeton in 2007, Jones taught organic chemistry at New York University. Until spring 2022, Jones' contract at NYU was not renewed in 2022 after students circulated a petition complaining that his course and tests were too hard. Jones said that the students' ability to study and learn had declined dramatically after the interruption of the COVID-19 epidemic.[2]
Textbooks
- Organic Chemistry, Jones, M. Jr., W. W. Norton, New York, 1997
- Instructor's Manual and Supplementary Problems Set for Organic Chemistry, Jones, M. Jr., Ovaska, T. W. W. Norton, New York, 1997.
- Study Guide for Organic Chemistry, Jones, M. Jr.; Gingrich, H. L. W. W. Norton, New York, 1997
- Study Guide for Organic Chemistry, Third Edition, Jones, M. Jr.; Gingrich, H. L. W. W. Norton, New York, 2004
- How to Survive and Thrive in Organic Chemistry for Dummie. Second Edition, Jones, M. Jr.; Gingrich, H. L. W. W. Norton, New York, 2004
Academic experience
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- Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University (1963)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin–Madison (1963–1964)
- Instructor in Chemistry, Princeton University (1964–1966)
- Assistant Professor, Princeton University (1966–1970)
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Columbia University (1969–1970)
- Associate Professor, Princeton University (1970–1973)
- Professor, Princeton University (1973–2007)
- Visiting Professor, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (1973–1974, 1978)
- David B. Jones Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University (1983–2007)
- Visiting Professor, Harvard University (1986)
- Visiting Professor, Kiev Polytechnic Institute (1990)
- Visiting Professor, Fudan University (1994)
- Professor, New York University (2007–2022)
Research articles
Awards and honors
- David B. Jones Professor of Chemistry (Princeton University)
