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Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
About Irina Beletskaya
- Irina Petrovna Beletskaya (Russian: ???´?? ?????´??? ????´????) (born 1933) is a professor of chemistry at Moscow State University.
- She specialises 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. 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.
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