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Irina Beletskaya, a Russian scientist and professor at the Chemistry Department of Moscow State University, has been awarded the UNESCO Prize named after Russian chemist Dmitry Mendeleev. The international jury awarded the RAS academician for her pioneering method of synthesizing carbon-nitrogen bonding, according to the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education's Telegram channel.
The jury acknowledged the Russian chemist for her groundbreaking scientific contributions to chemistry, particularly her pioneering research on organometallic reactions and the utilization of catalysts based on transition metals and metal nanoparticles in organic synthesis.
In the mid-1990s she developed an innovative method for carbon-nitrogen bond synthesis in collaboration with foreign chemists Steven Buchwald and John Hartwig. The outcomes of her research are actively applied in the agro-industrial sector, petrochemical industry, and pharmaceuticals.
Irina Beletskaya will receive the UNESCO award established four years ago,at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow in a ceremony on December, 13. The event will be broadcast on the official UNESCO website with Russian translation.
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