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Cpd dimers:  Excellent.

Taxol:  Those jmol structures are bizarre, what happened?  Your energies are all over the place.  Nice discussion on hyper-stable alkenes though.

Carbene:  Excellent.

Glycosidation:  Nice discussion of MM2 vs. MOPAC. You’ve noted the difference in length of C=O bond and a reason why this is, is there anything other potential bonding distance you could measure here? 

Taxol Take 2:  Nicely done.

Mini-project:  Nice choice of molecule and a good discussion of the work.  A ‘handwavy argumnet’?  Maybe, yes, but is this correct language for a deliverable report?  I suspect that in real life, comparison of J values would be the simplest technique to identify between the two.  Nice little discussion with the MOs.

Overall:  A well written report, shame about the taxol debacle!