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A general introduction for the objectives of what you are about to do is desirable.

Cyclopentadiene

I have to ask, did you drawn Figure 1/3 yourself? If not, you should cite the source, otherwise it might be described as plagiarism.

Good results and analysis

Taxol

Your report only one conformation for each system . But there are TWO chairs and several twist boats? Did you investigate any of these?

Did you try any hydrogenations to investigate hyper stability.

good analysis of your results again.

NMR

A nice selection of conformations for analysis. In 1.4.1 you report the calc and obs shifts, but I would have liked more details of "an overall error of +2 ppm. ". A graphical representation of the error and the distribution of errors would have helped. But you did put a lot of work into thiss. Well done!

X-ray

You note the importance of lone pair orientations with C-=O bonds. Did you try to measure these orientations, even approximately? Thus you could follow up " Hence, it could be inferred that the two sets of OLP and σ*C-O orbitals are in almost perfect anti-periplanar arrangement." with an actually attempt at measuring this.

Again, good discussion overall.

Epoxide NMR

Experimental spectrum needs a citation!

Good analysis

Rotations

Excellent, including Table 13/14.

TS analysis

Very thorough analysis. Good!

NCI analysis

Again, nice diagrams and analysis

Candiate

You could have been a bit more adventurous and select and alkene not in the Shi article!

Overall, very comprehensive and well thought out report.