Background
Jones, Maitland was born on November 23, 1937 in New York City. Son of Maitland and Irma (Tillmanns) Jones.
Jones, Maitland was born on November 23, 1937 in New York City. Son of Maitland and Irma (Tillmanns) Jones.
B.S., Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut, 1959
M.S., , New Haven, Connecticut, 1960
Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1963.
He received tenure in 1973. Jones's 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. Jones is also the author of Organic Chemistry texts.
He is sometimes credited with the naming of bullvalene. As of fall 2007, Jones teaches Organic Chemistry at New York University. W. W. Instructor's Manual and Supplementary Problems Set for , Ovaska, T. W. W.
Jr. L. W. W. Jr. L. W. W. Jr. L. W. W. Maitland Jones, Jr., et al. 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) 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–present) Ph.
Married Susan Hockaday. Children: Maitland, Hilary, Stephanie.
