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Irina Petrovna Beletskaya (Ири́на Петро́вна Беле́цкая) (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.

Academic career
Beletskaya was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg, Russia) in 1933. She graduated from the Department of Chemistry of Lomonosov Moscow State University in1955. In 1963 she received her Dr.Sci. degree from the same institution. In 1970 she became a Full Professor of chemistry at Moscow State University, where she currently serves as head of the Organoelement Chemistry Laboratory. Beletskaya was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Science of USSR in 1974. In 1992 she became a full member (academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Between 1991-93 she served as president of the Division of Organic Chemistry of IUPAC. Until 2001 she served on the IUPAC Committee on Chemical Weapons Destruction Technology (CWDT). She is editor-in chief of the Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry.

Scientific work
== Honors and awards ==
 * Lomonosov Prize, 1974.
 * Mendeleev Prize, 1979.
 * Nesmeyanov Prize, 1991.
 * Demidov Prize, 2003.
 * State Prize, 2004.
 * IUPAC 2013 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award, 2013.