Irina Beletskaya

Irina Beletskaya
Ирина Белецкая
Beletskaya in 2005
Born	(1933-03-10) March 10, 1933 (age 91) Leningrad
Citizenship	Russian
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Known for	Studies on aromatic reaction mechanisms, palladium and nickel catalysed methods for C-C bond formation
Awards	Lomonosov Prize (1974) Demidov Prize (2003) IUPAC 2013 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award (2013)
Scientific career
Fields	Organometallic chemistry
Institutions	Moscow State University

Irina Petrovna Beletskaya (Russian: Ири́на Петро́вна Беле́цкая; born 10 March 1933) is a Soviet and Russian professor of chemistry at Moscow State University. She specializes in organometallic chemistry and its application to problems in organic chemistry. She is best known for her studies on aromatic reaction mechanisms, as well as work on carbanion acidity and reactivity.^[1] She developed some of the first methods for carbon-carbon bond formation using palladium or nickel catalysts, and extended these reactions to work in aqueous media. She also helped to open up the chemistry of organolanthanides.