Talk:Mod:ilikecake

Cpd dimers: Excellent. Good to see you relating energetic terms to structural components.

Taxol: The geometry of your alkene is incorrect and your structures are definitely not minimised. Are there any, perhaps six-membered, components of the structure that you think could be in a lower energy conformation?

Carbene: Well done.

Glycosidation: Good that you’ve noted the difference between MOPAC and MM2, but why is this the case? Interesting use of overlays but we’re really only interested in a small section of the molecule in relation to the question. Where are your MOPAC energies?

Taxol Take 2: Not a huge amount of discussion. Although your calculations look okay.

Mini-project: Maybe not the best choice of molecule, it will be very difficult to minimise properly given the degrees of freedom in its conformation. Not much of a discussion here either.

Overall: A very good start brought up abruptly by what looks like a lack of time. I can’t give you marks for a discussion that isn’t there, but you do have it in you to write well judging by the beginning of the project.