Phone: 828-227-3673
Email: kwochka@email.wcu.edu 
Office Address: Natural Science Building, Room 225

Education:

• Ph.D., North Carolina State University
• B.A., Grinnell College

Areas of Interest:

• Preparing large ring systems and, ultimately, incorporating them into supramolecular systems.

Selected Publications & Presentations:

• David A. Leigh, Jeffrey S. Hannam, and William R. Kwochka, “Rotaxane-In-A-Bottle: The Synthesis Of Novel [2]Rotaxanes Using A Mechanically Interlocking Auxiliary” The 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA, March 13-17, 2005.
• Tiffany M. Mingin*, Christian P. Jensen*, and William R. Kwochka, “Rotaxanes as Precursors for a Molecular Muscle” The 4th Annual State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research Symposium, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, November 11-12, 2004.
• Beverly B. Smith, Darron E. Hill, T. Ashton Cropp, Rosa D. Walsh, David Cartrette, Sherry Hipps, Amy M. Shachter, William T. Pennington, and William R. Kwochka, "Synthesis of  [n]- and [n.n]Cyclophanes by Using  Suzuki-Miyaura  Coupling", J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 5333-5337.
• Cynthia Atterholt, David Butcher, J. Roger Bacon, William R. Kwochka, Royce Woosley, “Implementation of an Environmental Focus in an Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum by the Addition of Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry” J. Chem. Ed., December 2000, 77(12), 1549-1550.
• Beverly B. Smith, William R. Kwochka, Robert Damrauer, R. Jeffrey Swope, Joseph R. Smyth, “Synthesis of [6.6]Metacyclophane via the Suzuki Coupling,” J. Org. Chem. 1997, 62, 8589-8590.