College of Arts & Sciences

Faculty & Staff

Dr. Mirella Elkadi Assistant Professor of Chemistry Email: melkadi@pi.ac.ae Phone:+971-2-607-5434/75621 Office: 2003 (Bu Hasa) /8280 (Arzanah)

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 1993
• Certificate of Higher Studies, Organic Chemistry, University of Lausanne, 1988
• B.Sc., Chemistry, Lebanese University, 1986

Experience

2004 to now	Assistant Professor of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi
	Career covers a wide range of teaching expertise from secondary level to undergraduates at multinational universities of Switzerland and Scotland.
	Experience in essential instrumental techniques including NMR, GC, IR and mass spectroscopy

Research Interests

Carbon management and environmental studies.

Awards

Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (1995-2005)

Selected Publications

Sengul, M., Pillay, A. E., Francis, C. G., & Elkadi, M. (2007). Climate change and carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration: an African perspective. Int. J. Environm. Stud., 62(4), 545-556. Wang, Q., El Khoury, M. and Schlosser, M. Bridging the final gap in stereocontrolled Wittig reactions: methoxymethoxy-armed allylic phosphorus ylides affording conjugated dienes with high cis selectivity.    Chemistry-A European Journal  (2000),  6(3),  420-6

El-Khoury, M., Wang, Q. and Schlosser, M. A new generation of "instant ylides": powder mixtures of phosphonium salts and potassium hydride as storable precursors to Wittig reagents. Tetrahedron Letters  (1996),  37(50),  9047-8

Pillay, A. E., Elkadi, M. & Fok, S. (2008). Biofuels: Bane or Blessing? Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment, 12(2) 5-6.