By Selwyn Duke

It’s a course that “weeds out the doctors from the wannabes,” wrote FastWeb last year about notoriously difficult organic chemistry. This hasn’t stopped a group of Big Apple wannabes, however, from getting an organic chemistry professor fired because his class is “too hard.” The kicker is that the professor, Maitland Jones Jr., is highly accomplished in his field — in fact, he wrote the book on it.

(Or, at least, a book on it.)

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