Talk:Mod:chilong module1

Cp dimers: Your explanation could be a little more concise. Nice to see you realise the limitations of an MM approach. Try to use either numbers or letters to label your structures, not both.

Taxol: Good to see you exploring different conformations of the molecule and comparing the differences.

Carbene: Good that you’ve noticed a bug in the programme. Nice discussion.

Glycosidation: I wouldn’t say ‘not as good’, its just a different approach. Good to see that you’ve noticed A and C are equivalent for MOPAC but a more in depth discussion on the differences of MOPAC and MM2 would have been nice. You’ve discussed angle of attack but you’ve not mentioned what this is usually called! Drew is the past form of draw and is incorrectly used here, you should be using drawn, the past participle. You draw a bond or you drew a bond, however, a bond is drawn.

Mini-project: Good to see you’ve chosen your own project, quite a nice one as well. Very good graphical representation of the difference between the literature and your calculated NMR spectra. If you calculated the H spectra, why didn’t you put them in? Nice to see you’re not taking what’s in the literature as gospel. A very good project.

Overall: Your English could use a little bit of work and your explanations could be a little more concise (although they got better towards the end). However, your answers and analyses were generally pretty good. Well done.