Talk:Mod1:Yuko.Isayama3001

Cp dimers: Good energies and discussion

NAD: Your structure 5.1 looks very odd (strange C=O bond angles), which explains its VERY high energy! Structure 5.2 is fine though. Your structure 7 also seems high in energy, although I can't see if there's anything wrong with it as I can't rotate your structure. In fact, it should be possible to locate a (less stable) isomer with the C=O up as well. Your explanations of the stereocontrol are fine.

Taxol: Your energies and structures are good. I'd have liked more discussion on why the alkenes are unreactive, based on particular interactions in TSs leading to addition products.

Carbene: Good orbitals and IR analysis! All that's missing really is discussion of bond lengths

Mini-project: Very nice example, and generally very good discussion. Not sure what you mean near the end when you talk about coupling constants in the same para. as 13C! A nice addition (and link into Prof Rzepa's Pericyclics course) would have been to discuss why the electrocyclisation is disrotatory!