Rep:Mod:EXPT1C3614 rea12
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Cyclopentadiene
You confused exo and endo in your chemdraw graphic.
Taxol
It's intereseting to see, that the chair isn't the most stable conformation with molecule 10. Goes to show that your initial remark on six-ring energetic stability is correct for cyclohexane - but it shows that this piece of info has to be interpreted. It can be right (molecule 9) or can be wrong(10) or can be right again (10, with trans H pointing down).
NMR
Epoxide
Very good section! I like the graph showing the inductive effect and lone pair donation!
NMR
"It can be seen from the table below that the epoxide has a very similar calculated 13C and 1H NMR spectrums within a same pair of enantiomer. Therefore, NMR cannot be a good tool in determining the absolute configuration of the epoxide. " Good!
Rotations
"calculated ORP " you can just change the sign for the different enantiomer. Gaussview has a 'invert structure' option. Also, the difference in calculated values for table 15 should really make you stop and double-check. You missed a chance for a bit more discussion. ;)
TS
Well done!
QTAIM and NCI
Good!